S11 EP10: Feeling Roasted? We’re Dishing Up Some Thanksgiving Clapbacks
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It can be challenging to keep that thankful glow about you when confronted about your relationship status, your lifestyle, or the myriad of other things you’d rather not discuss with someone you see once a year and who is more interested in the spectacle of it, as you gobble your turkey.
In today’s episode we address some of the toxic language and unsolicited advice that you might hear around the holiday. Go in prepared this year and set some healthy boundaries, so you don’t find yourself on the spot again. Avoid waking up in the middle of the night with the perfect comeback, 12 hours too late. Your holiday experience is under your control. YOU set the guidelines, the boundaries, and the expectations. Listen for tips on how to make this Thanksgiving go exactly the way you envision it, and even have some fun!
(00:00:00) Welcome to the podcast and the holidays
(00:02:08) What is “unsurity” and how it leads to taking more sh*t
(00:04:40) You are not the CEO of someone else’s life
(00:12:17) Funny clapbacks for comments on relationship status
(00:15:40) Funny body shaming, diet culture clapbacks
(00:16:24) Clapbacks for parenting comments
(00:19:00) Tip #1 for dealing with difficult family members: radical acceptance
(00:22:10) Tip #2: How to manage your expectations
(00:23:53) Tip #3: Set a time limit
(00:26:48) Tip #4: Plan some games
(00:29:50) Tip #5: Go easy on the booze
(00:30:56) Tip #6: How to create clear boundaries
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| 0:00.0 | At the end of the day, radical acceptance is always going to be a savior because what we resist persists. |
| 0:10.9 | So the minute that you just accept that everybody has their opinion and that none of it has to do with me, |
| 0:19.1 | that radical acceptance just allows you to just clear |
| 0:23.5 | out everything else that might be accompanying some of these interactions and just let it go. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick That I Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:38.6 | Hey guys. Happy Thanksgiving week. I'm Rachel. |
| 0:43.8 | Basically what we're going to do with this episode is just to make sure that you're not taking no shit. |
| 0:50.0 | You ain't taken no shit. So if you need a little pump up for maybe your Thanksgiving gatherings, |
| 0:58.1 | we're here just with a quick episode to pump you up, give you some laugh a little, go into it |
| 1:04.6 | with a good attitude because literally the only thing, I'm just going to go hard on this, |
| 1:11.4 | the only thing in life that matters with like how you are taking, like receiving anything is your attitude. |
| 1:19.7 | Like that's, it literally is everything. |
| 1:22.9 | So true. |
| 1:24.3 | Not only can you take this into this Thanksgiving week where you might be getting together |
| 1:29.8 | with some friends, some families, some people you would choose to spend time with, some people |
| 1:36.1 | you might not choose to spend time with, but you can also take it into the entire holiday season |
| 1:40.4 | and all your interactions because this year you ain't taking no shit girl |
| 1:47.7 | yeah i'm excited about this holiday season so that's how i do you normally do you |
| 1:55.3 | do a lot of shit no is it for me. I really am I the drama? |
| 2:03.6 | You know, I don't. But there's different seasons in your life where you just feel a little bit more sensitive to some of these things. |
| 2:15.3 | And I think that they are ebbs and flows. Like I don't think |
| 2:18.7 | you ever come to a place where you're like, you know what? I've reached a time in my life where like |
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