Why Am I Like This? | Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach

It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang, how are we doing? There are many reasons why I enjoyed this conversation, but perhaps chief among them is that I personally feel a special kinship with people who write self-help books and yet who are still very willing to admit that they continued to occasionally be a fuck-up.

Glennon Doyle and Abby Wombach are each stars in their own right. Glennon is a huge best-selling author of books such as Untamed. Abby is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer and also a best-selling author in her own right. And together with Glennon's sister Amanda, they host a huge hit podcast called We Can Do Hard Things. And they are now out with a new book, also called We Can Do Hard Things, where they talk about 20 of life's biggest questions.

In this conversation, we talk about a time of significant personal struggles that happened Pretty much simultaneously for Glenn and Abby and Glennon's sister Amanda, which led them to writing this book. We talk about why people in the self-help world don't always have their shit together, why trauma leads to dissociation, how to go on after the experience of grief, why we are the way we are, family roles, attachment theory, and learned behaviors, the possibility of personal change, and uh our thoughts on the latest season of White Lotus. Before we get started, I just want to let you know about something very cool that we're going to be doing in the second half of May. We are going to be doing a live meditation mini-series each weekday from Monday, May 19th to Friday, May 23rd at 4 p.m.

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