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Oversharing

Betches

Relationships, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Oversharing starts with a listener email about an all-too-common source of anxiety these days: mass shootings and the safety of our loved ones. A listener writes in with a question about how to cope with a child going off to school for the first time during a time where shootings are constantly in the news, igniting feelings of fear and anxiety. How much caution do we need to exercise, and how much should we limit our exposure to anxiety-inducing information? Then Jordana and Naomi read this week’s Betchicist submission from a listener who got iced out by her sister after serving as her de facto nanny for years. How do you set new boundaries when a family member becomes too demanding? And how do you weigh your own needs for validation and autonomy against the needs of young children? Finally, they close with some Triggered scenarios about family members following an ex, animals after a breakup, and a lazy member of the group chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	caution. The ultimate spicy meatball from Dominoes is hot. Just not stupid hot. It won't earn
0:05.2	you mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath. It's hot. Good hot.
0:10.8	The kind of hot that boosts taste nothing else. The ultimate spicy meatball with Siracha
0:15.2	Drizzle from Dominoes, it will get you fired up. A quick note before we get into the episode.
0:22.3	Oversharing is a podcast for entertainment purposes only. It is not a medical podcast and does
0:28.2	not constitute medical or psychological advice. Always seek the advice of your position or mental health
0:32.8	professional. Hello and welcome back to Oversharing. I'm Jordana Abraham and I am Dr. Naomi Bernstein
0:41.1	and we're back for another week of solving everyone's mental health crises, right? Yeah,
0:46.4	let's do it. I'm excited. Ready to go. I see you usually don't wear your glasses. They look good
0:51.4	on you. I think my eyesight is getting worse because Mike and I went to pickberry last night and I
0:58.2	was literally leaning over the counter to try to see what the names of the flavors and everything
1:05.5	were. I was like, I don't remember a time when that was, I mean sometimes it's a little blurry,
1:10.6	like I don't have 20-20 vision, but... Right. Well, you know you're not getting old until when
1:15.1	it's still distance that's blurry. Once it's like close to your face. In front of your face that's
1:20.4	blurry, then you know you're getting old really quick. I know we have a lot to get to today. So
1:26.1	last week I had my 43rd birthday, which was really fun and the very next day after my birthday,
1:33.1	I was switching the laundry from the washer to the dryer and I totally threw out my back.
1:38.4	Like, couldn't move. Hunched over the dryer. Stuck. Jeff was out. I had all three kids and I'm just
1:46.0	like screaming for somebody to come help. Did they help you? Yeah, they were really, really good.
1:51.4	They were really helpful. Yeah, they felt so bad. I think they started to have that fear. A lot of
1:56.8	kids have like feared of their parents like dying and whatever. So I think when they saw me
2:01.9	hunched over and looking like an old lady, it really kind of freaked them out. So there was 43
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