Lori Gottlieb: ...we all struggle with the same things at our core

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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What happens when the therapist becomes the patient? Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, and national advice columnist who joins us to talk about what happened when she had a life crisis and decided she needed to seek help herself. Lori's latest book is called Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A therapist, HER therapist and Our Lives Revealed. | We'd like to thank our sponsor, Smart & Sexy, for this episode! For 30% off your first order, go to http://www.smartandsexy.com and enter promo code 'nobodytoldme' at checkout.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. On this episode, we welcome
0:18.0	psychotherapist and bestselling author Lori Gottlieb to the show.
0:22.5	Lori is the author of several books, the latest of which is called Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, a therapist, her therapist, and Our Lives Revealed.
0:31.4	Lori, thank you so much for joining us.
0:33.5	It's my pleasure.
0:35.0	Your latest book takes readers into both your therapy office where you see
0:39.7	patients and into your own therapist's office where you landed after a crisis. Tell us more about
0:45.4	how the book came about. So it wasn't like I woke up one day and said, I'm going to write about
0:51.3	my experience in therapy. Right. It was, it was very much, I was supposed to be writing a different book, which was a book about happiness.
1:01.1	And I was just starting out my career as a therapist.
1:06.3	And the more I saw what was going on in the room and in people's lives, the more I felt like the book
1:12.8	that I was writing wasn't really getting it what I wanted to say about the human experience
1:18.7	and what we all go through and what our struggles are like. And so I thought I would rather
1:25.2	bring people into the therapy room and let them see firsthand what was going on.
1:29.2	But I also felt that it would be a little bit disingenuous if I showed what was going on with my
1:35.6	patients, but I didn't really present myself as a normal human being, that I was the expert up on high.
1:43.2	And I really wanted to show that we're all
1:45.8	more the same than we are different. And the only way I felt I could really do that was by bringing
1:50.7	people into both experiences. You say that your greatest credential isn't your degrees or your
1:57.0	years of training, but the fact that you're a card-carrying member of the human race,
2:01.5	I love that.
2:02.7	Why is simply knowing what it's like to be a person struggles and highs and everything
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