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I'm Maura Aronsmeli and this is the Anxious Achiever.

We look at stories from business leaders who've dealt with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges,

how they fell down, how they pick themselves

up, and how they hope work will change in the future.

From a major breakup to the mental health toll a chronic disease takes, today's guest is someone

who knows the power of therapy. She's the best-selling author of Maybe You Should Talk to

Someone, and the host of the Dear Therapist podcast, Lori Gottlieb. Lori built her career in therapy

later in life, but she since embraced it along with writing as her life's work.

Lori is a storyteller, and she helps her patients, as she says, edit their own stories.

Lori is also a passionate advocate for those suffering from the autoimmune diseases of Graves disease and thyroid eye disease.

We'll talk a bit about the impact of chronic pain and illnesses on our mental health. But the advice Lori gives for dealing

with the emotional impact of physical ailments, believing in yourself, giving yourself

permission to mourn your past life, sticking with it through change and writing about your feelings, applies to all

of life's challenges, including those at work. She also offers up some great advice on when to

know if you should seek out a therapist. Here's our conversation. You know, it's funny, I mean, I along with millions of others, I think we're your fans

because you're so good at bringing us along into your sort of inner journey as you write,

as you tell stories.

And I'm curious, why talk now about chronic disease?

Why for you and why for this moment, why use your voice for it?

Well, this is something I have some personal experience in if you read maybe you should talk to someone,

you know, that I was having some lots of symptoms that nobody could really understand.

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