Lori Gottlieb on How to Rewrite Your Life Story and Radically Transform Your Future

How often have you spent time with people you love only to feel frustrated and misunderstood? As humans we are all so complex in our network of feelings and emotions. Unfortunately, we’ve been raised thinking that negative emotions are bad and should be shunned. Many of us are barely holding it together, or are spiraling out of control because we don’t know how to handle the feelings that are leaving us totally overwhelmed.

Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and author joins me and breaks down why we don’t have to run away from those taboo feelings of envy and jealousy. She explains how to communicate better and hold space for your partner or children and allow them to just be heard. This episode is packed with so much you may have to listen a second time.

SHOW NOTES:

Unreliable Narrator | Why your perspective isn’t the full story, it’s a faulty narrative [0:19]

Unknow Yourself | Lori helping people unknow the stories they keep repeating [1:32]

Insight | Lori explains why insight without action is useless [3:58]

Idiot Compassion | Lori breaks down what this is and why it doesn’t help [5:05]

Relationship Filter | Lori’s questions for examining people around you [6:45]

Change | Lori on why change is difficult because of uncertainty and loss [8:17]

5 Steps | 5 stages of change to making a permanent change in your life [9:08]

Change Anxiety | Getting through unfamiliar territory & anxiety with change [12:39]

Choosing to Suffer | Lori on why we don’t choose pain but we choose to suffer [14:06]