REPLAY | The Dangers of Gentle Parenting, SEL & Empathy | Guest: Abigail Shrier

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today we're joined by author Abigail Shrier to discuss her newest book, "Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up." She dives into the unknown dangers of therapy for children, the differences between worry and anxiety, depression, and sadness and why therapy is different for adults. She also explains the dark motives that fuel some therapists and inevitably cause harm to the family unit as a whole. We discuss whether gentle parenting is a valid parenting style and the dangers of manipulative empathy. Abigail answers a few of the most pressing questions about mental health, such as: Is therapy the "responsible" thing to do? What is "social emotional learning," and why is it in our children's schools? And is the widespread use of antidepressants an example of social contagion? Share the Arrows 2025 is on October 11 in Dallas, Texas! Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sharethearrows.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for tickets now! Sponsored by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Carly Jean Los Angeles⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Good Ranchers⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠EveryLife⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 611 | How Woke Ideology Has Ruined Therapy | Guest: Dr. Sally Satel https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/id1359249098?i=1000559621694 Ep 822 | The Big Money Behind Big Medicine | Guest: Dr. Roger McFillin https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/id1359249098?i=1000617050991 Ep 821 | Why Antidepressants Don't Fix Depression | Guest: Dr. Roger McFillin https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/id1359249098?i=1000616890403 Ep 802 | Inside the Mind of a Mass Shooter | Guest: Dr. Nicholas Kardaras | Part 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/id1359249098?i=1000612383862 Ep 803 | The Science Behind Screen Addiction | Guest: Dr. Nicholas Kardaras | Part 2 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/id1359249098?i=1000612546999 Ep 720 | American Girl Betrays Girls & the SEL Trojan Horse | Guest: James Lindsay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-720-american-girl-betrays-girls-the-sel-trojan/id1359249098?i=1000589293861 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gentle parenting, empathy, all the things we're told are good for kids are actually very harmful.
0:10.0	That's what today's guest argues.
0:12.7	Author Abigail Schreier is here today to break it all down for us as we are talking about her book,
0:18.5	Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up.
0:20.7	Guys, this is an amazing conversation that you need to share with every single parent in your life.
0:27.4	Oh my goodness, I learned so much.
0:30.0	This episode, this conversation with Abigail Shrier, is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
0:35.6	Go to Go to GoToRanchers.com.
0:36.9	Use code Allie at checkout. That's GoToranchers.com. Use code Alley at checkout.
0:38.1	That's good ranchers.com.
0:39.3	Code Allie.
0:54.0	Allie.
0:54.0	All right. You've got another amazing book
0:56.5	that's out after irreversible damage. This one is called Bad Therapy. So just set us up.
1:02.8	Tell us why you went down this road and decided to write it. Sure. So first of all,
1:08.5	thank you so much for having me on Allie. I really love your show and I really appreciate the invitation. So I'm raising three kids in the rising generation. And what I wanted to know was why did the rising generation seem to be suffering so much? They seem to be in genuine distress, uh, genuinely fearful, genuinely full of worry and
1:30.2	anxiety and genuinely a little depressed, uh, sad. And they hadn't obviously lived through
1:37.2	anything that hard until the pandemic. They really hadn't lived through, you know, anything hard
1:41.7	at all as a group, um, as a generation. Um, and, and, and, through, you know, anything hard at all as a group, as a generation.
1:47.0	And the other strange thing was they received the most mental health treatment,
1:52.7	the most coping techniques, the most mindfulness, the most therapeutic intervention,
1:57.8	the most diagnosis, the most psych meds of any generation. So they really should
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