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    184. When You’re Glad Your Mom Died with Jennette McCurdy

    184. When You’re Glad Your Mom Died with Jennette McCurdy

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    184. When You’re Glad Your Mom Died with Jennette McCurdy

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    Length:
    59 minutes
    Released:
    Feb 28, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    1. Why no one talks about the complicated feelings of freedom after the death of a toxic loved one.
    2. How Jennette’s mom enforced extreme calorie striction to control and bond with Jennette, and the moment her body finally said, No.
    3. What led Jennette to step away from acting after her iCarly stardom, and why she doesn’t think “resilient” is a compliment.
    4. How Jennette found herself still “doing her mother’s work” in therapy – and how she stopped forcing forgiveness.
    5. Why – when you’ve grown up in an environment of chaos and volatility – healthy, comfortable relationships can feel boring. 
    6. Jennette's relationship with her inner voice – and how she understands and experiences Obsessive-compulsive disorder today.

    CW // eating disorders, toxic relationships 

    About Jennette:
    Jennette McCurdy is the New York Times Bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died, which stayed at #1 on the NYT bestseller list for eight consecutive weeks and has remained on the list for 24. In her memoir, Jennette dives into her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette has been honored as part of the 2022 TIME100 Next list, and her debut fiction novel will be released in 2024.

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    Released:
    Feb 28, 2023
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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.