New Year’s resolutions get a bad rap for valid reasons. While it’s rational to be skeptical of the value of setting goals and resolutions, I’m here this week to rescue their reputation. They can be motivated by willpower, hustle, and perfectionism, but that’s not all they are or can be, and I’m showing you why.
To turn the cultural ideas about the psychology of women on its head, I’m here this week with Elise Loehnen. Elise is the New York Times best-selling author of On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good and host of the Pulling the Thread podcast. She has been studying the dominance of our culture and how we can interrupt our programming to ultimately find balance and equity, and she’s here to share her insights with us.
Women especially drastically underestimate what we’re capable of achieving, having absorbed messages about knowing our own limitations, not wanting too much, or thinking too highly of ourselves. As a result, some of you don’t ever think about the future or have big dreams, while the rest of you identify as perfectionists who live in the future all the time. Either way, the concept of impossible goals can be incredibly powerful if applied correctly.
To talk all things having children, choosing to be child-free, and everything in between, I’m speaking to the hosts of the ShrinkChicks Podcast, Jennifer Chaiken and Emmalee Bierly. They’re both licensed marriage and family therapists who are dedicated to creating a unique therapeutic environment even skeptics would open up to, and they’re here to dive into the anxiety that can often come up around the choice of having or not having children.
Hear why we’ve lost perspective on whether or not we’re being dramatic, how a dramatic narrative is creating unnecessary mental anguish for you, and what to do the next time you notice your brain being dramatic.
This week, you’re hearing a special bonus episode with the hosts of the Girls Gotta Eat Podcast, Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine. Girls Gotta Eat is a top comedy podcast about dating, sex, and relationships. From sexual fetishes to finances, Rayna and Ashley cover it all, often with amazing regular