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    159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas

    159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas

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    159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    69 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 13, 2022
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    1. Cutting off contact with family is on a dramatic rise – how to know if there’s hope of repair, or if self-preservation requires distance.  
    2. How to have present, productive conversations with our parents about the past.  
    3. Why we grieve the loss of a family member even if we know it’s healthiest to cut them out. 
    4. Attachment styles, emotional honesty, and the difference between forgiveness and repair. 
    5. What to do and say – and what NOT to say – when attempting to reconnect with an estranged loved one.   

    About Dr. Atlas:
    Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City. Her new book Emotional Inheritance was published in January 2022 and is being translated into 17 languages. She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. 

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    Released:
    Dec 13, 2022
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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.