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🗓️ 6 September 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. This holiday season do something for a special person in your life. |
0:05.3 | You, give yourself a gift to raise your spirits and not just for the day. |
0:10.0 | BetterHelp connects you with a licensed therapist 100% online via video, phone, and live chat sessions. |
0:16.4 | And the holiday season is the perfect time to try it and see if therapy is for you. |
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 | struggles can feel a little easier to manage. BetterHelp is much more affordable than in-person therapy, |
0:44.0 | and you can do it from the comfort of your home on a schedule that works for you. |
0:47.7 | So this holiday season give yourself a gift of better mental health, |
0:51.3 | a gift that really does keep on giving. Visit BetterHelp.com to see if therapy is for you. |
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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