people come in and I feel like because I have a writing background I feel like I'm an editor in

that chair where people come in with a faulty narrative it's their first draft and that story

doesn't really work in a lot of ways it needs an edit it needs a revision you know I think a lot

of people feel like they're coming to therapy to get to know themselves and I feel like a lot of

what they're doing is to come to therapy to get to unknow themselves so like go of those limiting

stories that they're carrying around that are holding them back so some people come in with

these stories like you know I can't trust anybody or you know I'm a victim or I'm unlovable or

nothing will ever work out for me none of those things are true but because they believe them

and that's the story they walk around the world with that affects what happens to them

therapist uncensored brings you decades of experience with interpersonal psychotherapy relational

neuroscience modern attachment in anything else they think will be helpful in healing humans now

hear your co-host Dr. Anne Kelly in Sumeriat hey everybody this is Sumeriat welcome back to

therapist uncensored today we're super excited to bring you our conversation with Lori Gottlieb

author of the New York Times bestseller maybe you should talk to someone and part of what we're

super psyched about is that this is the book that I frequently recommend to patients and other

folks it's particularly good for those that aren't super therapy savvy actually it's good for both

because if you're therapy savvy you're going to totally get into it and learn a ton but in our

conversation we were really able to dig into and get some good gems about sort of the reality of

therapy and how it works and all of those good things so that's very exciting so who is Lori

Gottlieb her bio is as long as my arm it's fantastic but here's what you really need to know and all

of this of course will be linked in the show notes but in addition to being I think an incredible

clinician she is also prolific in her writing she writes for the Atlantic's weekly dear therapist

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