Jealousy, Relationship Baggage, and Rewriting Your Story with Psychotherapist & Author Lori Gottlieb (Part 1)
The Lo Life
Podcast Nation
5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest might have one of the world’s longest waiting lists, but Lo is skipping the line and getting some on-the-mic therapy for both himself and his beloved Lo Lifers! Lori Gottlieb is an incredible psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and co-host of the extremely popular podcast Dear Therapists. When it comes to rewriting our stories and shifting our narratives, Lori is the go-to expert to help her clients, listeners, and readers gain the mindset shift they often desperately need. In this episode, Lo and Lori are opening up and giving advice on everything from navigating differences within our families to leaning into the envy that comes with comparison culture to finding the therapist that is right for you.
Even though she might seem like she’s been doing this forever, Lori wasn’t always in the therapy field. She actually started her career in entertainment and only shifted to therapy once she realized that real-life stories interested her far more than those on our TV screens. Since then, Lori has been helping clients, readers, and listeners rewrite the faulty narratives we so often tell ourselves when it comes to our relationships, our careers, and our overall lives. How do we not take our baggage into new relationships? How can we speak to our families about hot-button issues? What do we do with our anxious and depressed feelings? Lo is asking Lori questions that the Lo Lifers might not have even known they needed answers to. This extremely informative and eye-opening episode will have you getting excited for your next, or maybe even your first, therapy session.
Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and send to a friend so we can keep this sh!t show on the road, kings and kweens! Follow your host Lo on Instagram @stylelvr and make sure to drink some water... we know you’re thirsty. You can find Lori’s books and more information on her website, watch her popular TED Talk here, find her on social media @lorigottlieb_author, and listen to her podcast Dear Therapists wherever you find podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello, bien-in'ew, welcome, yeah, we keep it moving, yeah, bonjourno. |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome to an all new episode of the Low Life podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your flaming, hot and spicy, hot mess of a host, Lo van Rumpf. |
| 0:30.1 | And I'm so happy to be here with you today. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, no place I'd rather be. |
| 0:34.6 | Spring is here. |
| 0:35.8 | The birds are chirping. |
| 0:37.3 | The bees are buzzing. There's a fucking war going be. Spring is here. The birds are chirping. The bees are buzzing. |
| 0:38.8 | There's a war going on. Jeez. Yeah, happy stuff. Let's just address the big Russian elephant in the room. |
| 0:47.1 | It is so devastating. There's a war happening. And it's flooding the news. Our news feeds, our social media, it's everywhere. You know, I was in my |
| 0:55.8 | little social media break bubble, just painting and doing DIY projects and cooking. And, yeah, |
| 1:03.3 | just completely complicit, living my best life. And boy, did I pick the right time to come back |
| 1:07.6 | to social media. I was like, geez, this is, this is really devastating news, what's happening. And it's, it's tough to watch. It makes me feel sad. It's just heaviness, you know? I don't want to be blind to what's happening in the world. I'm glad that I came back to social media. Like, I want to know what the hell is going on in the world. But at the same time, you know, |
| 1:28.4 | I realized that when dealing with heavy stuff, you know, dealing with devastation and tragedy, |
| 1:35.1 | even in my own personal life, my own trauma that I've had to get through, I've noticed that I've |
| 1:39.7 | always used humor as a coping mechanism, a dark sense of humor. It's not for everybody, but most of my low lifers, |
| 1:47.4 | you guys seem to be cool with it. I've used this dark sense of humor, little underlying comedy, |
| 1:55.0 | to get me through a lot of difficult times. And of course, it's a coping mechanism. It also was a |
| 1:59.5 | defense mechanism when I was younger because I was bullied. And so course it's a coping mechanism. It also was a defense mechanism when I was younger |
| 2:01.1 | because I was bullied. And so I would, you know, use humor to get me through, like survival, |
| 2:07.3 | basically. So I didn't completely fall apart. But, you know, in getting bullied, I sharpened my wit, |
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