Why Family Relationships Are So Hard and What Actually Helps with Nedra Glover Tawwab

Even if you've trained for it, you went to school for it, you worked hard for it, you've done all the work to be in a healthy relationship, you may still feel like, ugh, I don't deserve this good person. It's the discomfort of being in a new situation. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. Have you ever gotten to the end of a long and exhausting conversation and realized you didn't even know what you were fighting about anymore? Because sometimes the issue isn't the topic, it's the loop. In this conversation, I'm talking with licensed therapist and best-selling author Nedra Glover Chihuahua about how family dynamics can keep us trapped in patterns that feel impossible to change, especially when old wounds and expectations are baked into the relationship.

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