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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: Actor Andrew McCarthy Faces the Question of How, as a Parent, to Acknowledge a Child’s Pain

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

When the young son of actor and writer Andrew McCarthy raised a tough issue, his father found the right words to respond. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:10.0

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0:16.4

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0:20.8

After all, the holidays are a notoriously tough time between managing family dynamics,

0:25.8

racing from thing to thing, and braving the cold and dark weather, it's normal to feel down.

0:30.8

Having someone to talk to about how you're feeling and what you can do about it is truly a gift.

0:35.7

When you're armed with more information about what you're experiencing,

0:38.8

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0:44.0

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0:47.7

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0:51.3

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0:56.8

That's better, h-e-l-p-dot-com.

1:00.5

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

1:03.9

Because my sister Elizabeth was reading or rather listening to actor Andrew McCarthy's new

1:09.3

memoir Brat, I read it too. I found it very thought-provoking so I wanted to read Andrew

1:14.8

McCarthy's earlier memoir, The Longest Way Home, One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down.

1:21.7

Essential theme in both memoirs is Andrew McCarthy's feeling of being pulled between competing desires

1:28.0

for independent solitude and separation and connection, presence and belonging.

1:33.8

He wants to be alone and he wants to engage deeply with others,

1:38.7

and this paradox creates a real tension in his life. In The Longest Way Home,

1:43.4

he describes how he arranged to travel all over the world, in many cases on assignments as a

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