Secrets From the Therapist's Couch: How Boundaries Actually Work, How To Come To Peace With Your Parents, and Why It's Not Too Late To Change | Lori Gottlieb

Hello, welcome to the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today I'm talking to the great Lori Gottlieb, author of the massively popular book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. She's also the author of the Ask the Therapist advice column for the New York Times. She is, as you might imagine,

uh a very accomplished uh therapist. And the first part of this interview, we're going to get some uh secrets from the therapy room. We're gonna talk about whether everybody needs to do therapy, should you like your therapist and things like that. And then in the second part, it's really actually the the back two-thirds of this conversation, we're gonna talk about some super practical pieces of advice she has often summed up in these very pithy phrases.

We talk about why envy is often a a a good thing to pay attention to. It can be a very uh helpful signal. We talk about why you shouldn't compare your suffering to other people, uh, how you can edit the stories you tell yourself about yourself, how you can come to peace with your parents, uh, and much more. Lori Gottlieb coming up after this quick break. A few things before we hear from our sponsors, I highly recommend that you head on over to danharris.com to check out my new-ish meditation app, 10% with Dan Harris.

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