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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Do you stay in toxic relationships/friendships to avoid being alone? Are you scared of not being able to handle certain emotions without someone by your side? In this episode, we dive into the topic of learning to be alone, independence, and learning to trust yourself. We discuss the importance of being comfortable with your own company, having faith you'll pick yourself up, and realizing learning to be alone requires self-trust.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenager Therapy. I'm Gaya. I'm Kayla. I'm Thomas. |
0:16.0 | Welcome back to the podcast. It looks a little bit differently. Yeah. It looks a little different. |
0:21.0 | I mean, yeah. It is not a big change. This isn't like a new set. We're not like, don't |
0:27.8 | get it. Don't freak out. Don't freak. Stay calm. It's just new year, new us. |
0:32.8 | We're literally just because it's a could not shoot from Thomas' bedroom because it was a little |
0:39.5 | inconvenient because it's been hectic. It's been hectic a couple of weeks with school |
0:42.8 | starting, new schedules, new routine. I feel like that's a lot emotionally. It's hard to deal |
0:51.4 | with, but yeah, I don't know more than anything. We just kind of have to do it. Of course, so once |
0:56.6 | we settle into it, we'll be back in Thomas' room. I'll schedule it every week. This week's |
1:01.3 | episode is about how to be alone. How to learn how to be alone. A little bit. It's a little |
1:06.1 | bit of everything, I suppose, trusting yourself to be alone, self-trust, loneliness versus being |
1:12.5 | alone. All of those topics. I feel like this has been really relevant in my life recently |
1:21.0 | that I've really been noticing these past two weeks because I've been going through a lot |
1:32.0 | of difficult emotions in the past three months or so. It's been a lot of difficult emotions. |
1:42.6 | Mostly due to a couple different situations, I'll kind of combine that ones. If we would |
1:50.5 | have had this conversation like five months ago, mid-year, last year, I think I would have |
1:58.5 | given a different answer to the question of, do you trust yourself to be alone? I think |
2:05.5 | I probably would have said no. I probably would have talked about how scared I was to be |
2:13.6 | alone, how anxious it made me, how worried I was that if I lose people close to me in |
2:19.7 | my life or if I'm suddenly alone and lonely that I would fall apart and I would just lose |
2:27.8 | myself, lose my routines, my habits and just not be able to be the best version of myself. |
2:37.9 | But now five months later, I feel like I've gone through a lot of difficult emotions and |
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