What’s Your FAMILY DRAMA Style? with Nedra Glover Tawwab (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We all want tools to navigate (and minimize!) family drama. Today, Nedra Glover Tawwab teaches us how we can create drama free families: How to speak up for yourself when it feels like going against the group; Why confrontation is often the kindest thing; When, exactly, we should bring up conflict & when to let it go; The most loving way a parent can respond to a child in pain. For more with Nedra Glover Tawwab, check out: ⁠Episode 124 How to Say No: Boundaries with Nedra Glover Tawwab⁠. About Nedra: Nedra Glover Tawwab is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace. A licensed therapist and sought-after relationship expert, she has practiced relationship therapy for more than fifteen years. Tawwab has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice. Tawwab runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and relationships. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family. TW: ⁠@NedraTawwab⁠ IG: ⁠@nedratawwab 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	How are the both of you?
0:11.9	I think the both of us are pretty good.
0:14.0	Yeah, we're like one kid's in Berlin, another kid is hiking in the middle of somewhere,
0:19.1	so we both feel a little less tethered.
0:22.2	We have misplaced our children.
0:24.2	Yeah.
0:24.4	Our children are like off.
0:26.2	And then we're like, oh.
0:28.6	They're great.
0:30.1	We're like, oh.
0:32.3	A little untethered.
0:34.1	That's good.
0:35.1	How about you?
0:36.0	My kids are at summer camp.
0:37.5	Nice. And I will pick them kids are at summer camp. Nice.
0:38.3	And I will pick them up at five.
0:39.9	So very not untethered.
0:43.6	Yeah.
0:44.3	I'm in the thick of it.
0:45.5	I love hearing about teenage and adult children.
0:50.8	It is something that certainly makes all of the day-to-dayness like, oh, wow, there will
0:57.0	be a time when I, you know, don't see them every day. And it'll be sad, but refreshing.
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