Whitney Cummings: Genetics Loads the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger
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Mayim Bialik
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Whitney Cummings (comedian, actor, writer, producer, director) - and her unborn child! - stop by the studio to break down practical ways to reparent your inner child, how weed and microdosing mushrooms brought her to a manic episode, her addictions to love and fantasy, and channeling trauma into an asset. She opens up about her fears that she’s not worth listening to and her propensities for workaholism, perfectionism, codependency, and people-pleasing. Whitney reflects on competing with the substances her parents were addicted to, the nuances of birth order, the characteristics of parentified children, and the origins of her disordered eating. She shares her thoughts on self-sabotage, healthy anxiety as a gift of intuition, signs she knows she needs to be doing more self-care, how to schedule time to worry, the science behind manifesting, wolf therapy, and crying as a tool. Whitney delves into all things parenting, from the egg-freezing process and her journey through pregnancy to what scares her most about parenting, why it’s so difficult to watch parenting styles you don’t agree with, and her in-utero programming. She also discusses the origins of her humor, the responsible and reckless uses of comedy, plus we learn more about her new special, Mouthy!
Whitney Cummings' latest stand-up special, Mouthy: https://of.tv/creators/whitney-cummings-presents/
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| 0:00.0 | You know when you do amends in ACA the first person you make amends to is yourself |
| 0:07.0 | and then and then my sponsor said everyone you think oh you an amends is who you'll end up making an |
| 0:13.3 | amends to and then an amends to the inner child and there's this exercise |
| 0:17.1 | where in your right hand you write questions for your inner child and then in your |
| 0:21.7 | left hand you respond you write a question to your inner child and then in your left hand you respond. |
| 0:23.4 | You write a question to your inner child, five questions. |
| 0:25.8 | And for me I think it was like, what do you want to eat for dinner? |
| 0:28.9 | Because I was struggling with the eating stuff and the big thing was |
| 0:32.2 | just feed yourself the way you would feed a child. |
| 0:34.8 | The cheap for ACAs is often live as if you were caring for a child. |
| 0:39.8 | So you would never tell a child. |
| 0:41.2 | You're reparenting. You would never tell a child you're not going to eat lunch. You would never tell a child you're repairing you would never tell a child you're not going to eat lunch you would never tell a child |
| 0:45.4 | you're not going to brush your teeth this morning you know well I'm sure it happens but you would never |
| 0:49.0 | tell a child you have to hang out with someone that makes you uncomfortable |
| 0:51.8 | you have to talk to this person that makes you uncomfortable. |
| 0:54.0 | You're gonna skip, have Diet Coke for dinner. |
| 0:56.0 | You would never do that to a child, |
| 0:57.0 | so why would you do that to yourself? |
| 0:58.0 | So it's that little sneak, and then on my home screen of my phone |
| 1:02.0 | was a photo of me at like five and so I was always kind of just |
| 1:05.7 | trying to so then your left hand which is your non-dominant hand so your brain |
| 1:09.4 | is going to have to do a whole dance so I would ask questions that so specifically |
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