Understanding Identity and How Our Past Shapes Who We Become with Catherine Gray
The One You Feed
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Catherine Gray discusses identity and how our past shapes who we become. She shares her journey from writing non-fiction to crafting her first novel, which contains some themes from her life experiences. Catherine also delves into the ongoing battle between nature and nurture in forming our personalities and addictive tendencies as well as the impact of our choices in determining our future.
Key Takeaways:
- The power of small decisions in shaping our life's trajectory
- How attachment styles influence our relationships and behaviors
- The challenges of new parenthood and societal pressures on mothers
- The subtle ways we manipulate narratives in our daily interactions
- Strategies for breaking free from people-pleasing tendencies
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| 0:00.0 | I do think all of us have the capacity to be manipulative and being aware of it is just half of the battle, really. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:20.6 | quotes like garbage in, garbage in, |
| 0:22.1 | garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't |
| 0:28.4 | strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't |
| 0:36.1 | have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us |
| 0:39.2 | back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes |
| 0:45.3 | conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how |
| 0:51.1 | other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:10.1 | Chelsea Hanler here on Dear Chelsea. |
| 1:12.5 | I am joined by my long-time, illegitimate baby named Kevin Hart. |
| 1:16.2 | We talk about his birth. |
| 1:17.2 | We talk about his afterbirth. |
| 1:18.6 | We talk about his childhood, his adolescence, and that's pretty much where he is right now. |
| 1:22.9 | What do you mean? |
| 1:23.4 | You don't think. |
| 1:24.1 | What is going on with your legs that they need washing? |
| 1:26.5 | It's your body. You wash your body. Chelsea, your entire body. You don't think. What is going on with your legs that they need washing? It's your body. |
| 1:28.0 | You wash your body. |
| 1:29.5 | Chelsea, your entire body. |
| 1:31.0 | You don't pick and choose. |
| 1:31.8 | I have hot spots. |
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