Relationship Repair

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It's never too late to make things right—even when cracks form within our relationships with our families, our environment...or the inevitable. This hour, TED speakers offer healing solutions. Guests include clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, death doula Alua Arthur and indigenous community leader and conservationist Valérie Courtois.

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0:51.8	Zamorodi. So as I've mentioned before, I have another job besides this one. I'm a parent. And as
1:00.7	anyone who is a parent or has a parent knows, playing hooky is not an option as much as you might like to.
1:09.6	I had a day. Like I had a day. I was super stressed out. I hadn't slept. I was thinking about a
1:14.7	million things at work. It was Sunday night. I mean, I don't know any parent who's like at their
1:19.8	best on Sunday night. This is Becky Kennedy. She's a clinical psychologist and a mother of three.
1:27.2	That night she was in the kitchen. It was time for dinner. And my son walked into the kitchen.
1:34.2	He looked at the table and he's like, uh, chicken. Disgusting. Literally like that, you know.
1:45.2	So I'm just dying inside because substitute many different meals into that sentence and you're at
1:51.9	my dinner table with my daughter. Right. Exactly. So I did what any normal parent would do, which did
1:59.0	not include a deep breath. Thank you very much. I freaked out of him. I was like, what is wrong with
2:05.1	you? You don't appreciate anything I do. Did I call him a spoiled brat? Did I? I was scary. I was
2:11.9	reactive. I mean, the way I look at it now, my bucket of not getting my own needs met, my bucket
2:18.9	of stress was at its max. And all it took was my son dropping one drop in there for the entire
2:26.3	thing to overflow. You gave it right back to him harder and faster because you're an adult.
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