What Is Our Rage Telling Us? with Dr. Becky Kennedy (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Becky Kennedy is back to discuss something rarely talked about: “mom rage” – and the crucial connection between anger and our unmet needs. What leads to these explosive moments – and why it's more common than we might think; How understanding the story behind the rage moment can help us figure out what led to it and what we need. The impact of society's shaming of anger in women; and Tips for managing our anger, recognizing our needs, and taking care of ourselves. About Dr. Becky: Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three – who’s rethinking the way we raise our children – and named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. Dr. Becky is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be and founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place. Dr. Becky hosts Good Inside with Dr Becky, a chart-topping podcast with over 20M downloads. In 2023, Dr. Becky delivered a TED Talk in which she shares “the single most important parenting strategy”. TW: ⁠@goodinside⁠ IG: ⁠@drbeckyatgoodinside To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And it took some time, but I'm finally fine.
0:09.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:12.3	We have one of our dearest pod friends here with us today.
0:16.5	She's a pod icon.
0:17.7	She's a pod icon is what she is.
0:19.6	She's a podcon.
0:21.9	She's a podicon. She's a pod icon is what she is. She's a podcon. She's a podcon.
0:28.3	She's just out there changing lives all over the place. Dr. Becky Kennedy is here today.
0:35.0	Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, mom of three. She's rethinking the way we raised our children. And in that, she's making us all rethink everything in the world.
0:41.1	She has been named the millennial parenting whisper, which honestly kind of annoys me because I feel like
0:46.0	that is really ignoring all of Gen X as per usual. But that's fine. By Time magazine, Dr. Becky is the author of
0:53.9	the number one New York Times bestseller
0:55.7	Good Inside, A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is just if you're not a parent,
1:01.2	just by the way, none of that matters. It doesn't matter if you're not a parent because everything
1:04.3	that Dr. Becky says applies to every relationship in your life and maybe most importantly your relationship with yourself
1:13.2	totally and how to re-parent yourself helps me reparent myself yes um she is the founder of the good
1:18.7	inside membership platform and host of the chart topping podcast good inside with dr becky babe tell
1:24.8	dr becky what happened this morning at your big, loud, sweaty gym.
1:30.7	Okay. So sitting there's like a few minutes before everybody gets started. And this gentleman in there,
1:37.4	he was talking about his three-year-old and a new baby on the way. And all the other women were
1:42.6	giving him notes. And he said well have you ever
1:45.7	heard of dr becky and i said yeah i'm actually speaking with her today and he was like are you
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