Therapy Advice: Ranking Best & Worst From Social Media (with Lori Gottlieb)

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Liz Moody

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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There's some crazy mental health advice online. Sometimes you can scroll across a little nugget that helps your anxiety or depression or changes the way that you approach life, but a lot of what is out there is BS. So today, I am joined by the absolutely iconic Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist and bestselling author of one of my all time favorite books, to rank therapy advice from the internet from the superior advice to the advice you should ignore. 🎧 What you’ll learn: • The one question that separates helpful therapy advice from social media nonsense • The real meaning of boundaries • How to navigate family estrangement without torching relationships that could be saved • Why saying your anxiety is a "superpower" isn’t helpful and what to do instead • The sneaky reason you keep dating the same disappointing people over and over • How being a bully to yourself prevents long-term change • Why insight without action kills personal growth Check out the previous ranking advice from social media episode: “Money Advice: Ranking Best & Worst From Social Media (with HerFirst100K)” For more from Lori Gottlieb: • Book, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: https://lorigottlieb.com/books/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ • Podcast, Since You Asked: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/since-you-asked-with-lori-gottlieb-and-gretchen-rubin/id1837981015 • Ask A Therapist Advice Column: https://www.nytimes.com/column/ask-the-therapist Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/. Use our discount codes from our highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: • AG1: visit DrinkAG1.com/LizMoody and get 3 FREE AG1 Travel Packs, 3 FREE AGZ Travel • Pique: head to PiqueLife.com/LizMoody for 20% off. • IQ Bar: text LIZ to 64000 for 20% off. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 409. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are some crazy mental health advice online. Sometimes you can scroll across a little
0:04.7	nugget that helps your anxiety or depression or changes the way that you approach life,
0:08.8	but a lot of what is out there is BS. Here on the Liz Moody podcast, we want to help you find
0:13.8	those golden nuggets, those little tidbits that will change your life and your mental health.
0:17.8	And we want to help you dodge the stuff that does not work at all and maybe
0:21.7	even makes your life worse. So today, we are ranking therapy advice from the internet from
0:27.0	S-tier. So that's the superior advice all the way down to F-tier, the advice that you should ignore.
0:32.8	I am joined by the absolutely iconic Lori Gottlieb. She is a psychotherapist and the New York Times bestselling author
0:38.9	of one of my all-time favorite books. Maybe you should talk to someone, which is sold over three
0:43.3	million copies worldwide. She writes the Ask the Therapist column for the New York Times, and she just
0:48.9	launched a new podcast with Gretchen Rubin called Since You Ask, which focuses on life advice,
1:31.0	relationships, and daily dilemmas. This is a new series where ranking money advice, nutrition advice, relationship advice, and more. So make sure you're following so you do not miss it. And if there's any therapy advice that you see online that you wish we'd wait in on, tell us in the comments. Or if you disagree with any of our rankings, tell us in the comments because we want to know. Lori, welcome to the podcast. Oh, it's so fun to be here. Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited. Okay. So we're going to jump right in. We have some like a very spicy takes here. We're going to start off with a pretty spicy one. This is from Sabrina Zohar, and she says that people use therapy talk to avoid accountability.
1:29.1	So I'm going to play a video.
1:30.4	I'm going to say what nobody else will.
1:32.0	Some of you use fucking therapy speak to avoid accountability.
1:34.8	That's my trauma response has become a get-out-a-jail-free card for shitty behavior.
1:39.1	Understanding why you do something isn't the same as changing it.
1:42.6	You can't heal what you refuse to own.
1:44.8	Naming your patterns without doing the work to shift them is just giving your dysfunction a
1:48.1	fucking vocabulary. What do we think? Preaching to the choir. Yeah? Yeah. I think that there's a lot
1:54.9	of misinformation on social media about terms that people think are therapy terms, but then they misdefine them.
2:04.5	And what it does is it creates disconnection instead of connection.
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