Welcome to The Betty Rocker Present! Do you know that Might is Psychological Well being Consciousness Month? Whether or not you’re listening in Might or not, having sources to assist our psychological well being is simply as essential as having sources to assist our bodily well being.
My visitor immediately is a famend psychotherapist and editor-in-chief of Verywell Thoughts, the most important psychological well being web site on the planet. She’s the host of The Verywell Thoughts Podcast and a world bestselling writer.
Her guide, “13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do” has been translated into greater than 40 languages and is the primary in a sequence of books that give sensible recommendation that will help you practice your mind for happiness and success.
I’m so excited to introduce you to her, and speak by way of a few of my favourite psychological power ideas from a few my favourite books of hers (13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Ladies Don’t Do is true on the prime of my listing!) so you may apply them to your personal life. Have a pay attention, and let me know what stood out to you probably the most. Hyperlinks to all of Amy’s work are just under!
I’ve been an enormous fan of Amy Morin for a number of years and have collected her books. You could find her full guide assortment right here, together with:
- 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do
- 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do WORKBOOK
- 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Ladies Don’t Do
- 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Dad and mom Don’t Do
- 13 Issues Sturdy Children Do
- Amy Morin’s web site
- Psychological Energy books by Amy Morin
- Amy Morin on instagram
- Verywell Thoughts Podcast
Episode Transcript
Betty Rocker (00:02):
Welcome to the Betty Rocker Present. The place to be to nourish your thoughts, love your physique, and rock your life.
What’s up, rock stars? Coach Betty Rocker right here. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me immediately. Do you know that Might is Psychological Well being Consciousness Month? Whether or not you’re listening in Might or not, having sources to assist our psychological well being is simply as essential as having sources to assist our bodily well being. My visitor immediately is a famend psychotherapist and editor-in-chief of Verywell Thoughts, the most important psychological well being web site on the planet. She’s the host of the Verywell Thoughts podcast and a world bestselling writer. Her guide 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do has been translated into greater than 40 languages and is the primary in a sequence of books that give sensible recommendation that will help you practice your mind for happiness and success. I’ve been an enormous fan of Amy Morin for a number of years and have collected her books. I’m so excited to introduce you to her and speak by way of a few of my favourite psychological power ideas so you may apply them to your personal life. Be a part of me in welcoming her to the present. Welcome, Amy. So nice to have you ever with us immediately.
Amy Morin (01:29):
Thanks a lot for having me. I’m excited to be right here.
Betty Rocker (01:32):
Sure, and I’ve been such a fan of your work, and it’s actually a thrill to get to interview you as a result of your work is so related. I imply, it’s all the time been related. I don’t really feel prefer it’s ever been extra related to have these psychological instruments to work with. So thanks once more for coming to speak about your work. It’s so, so wanted.
Amy Morin (01:57):
Thanks. The world’s modified loads since I first wrote my first guide. It was 9 years in the past. Then my most up-to-date guide was the workbook to the 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do. And once I wrote the workbook, I used to be actually pondering, how has the world modified over the previous 9 years? I used to be like, we didn’t have cell telephones like smartphones. Solely 50% of individuals had smartphones 9 or 10 years in the past.
Betty Rocker (02:22):
Actually?
Amy Morin (02:25):
So the world has modified loads. Clearly COVID hadn’t been invented and all of those different issues which have come about and proceed to emerge. So to speak about how do you construct psychological power in immediately’s world is all the time an fascinating query.
Betty Rocker (02:39):
And I really feel by no means extra related. I do know that one factor that lots of people round me have famous is the quantity of crime that’s gone up, the quantity of homelessness has gone up. I really feel that we will hint a variety of that again to psychological well being issues and desperation and other people being sad and never having instruments and infrastructure to deal with the way in which that they really feel and the psychological capability to deal with all that’s occurring.
Amy Morin (03:13):
I believe so too. Quite a lot of the problems that we’re seeing got here out of an excellent place. Within the 70s, we determined we must always shut a variety of the large psychological well being establishments as a result of we don’t wish to institutionalize people who possibly have one thing like schizophrenia. However then we found out now jails have turn into the most important home for people who find themselves scuffling with continual and untreated psychological sickness. Then you definately take a look at issues just like the monetary disaster proper now and the way many individuals are struggling to pay their payments, and so they both have gotten homeless or in peril of it. How do you handle your psychological well being and the way are children managing this once they stay in a house atmosphere that’s disruptive and issues are fragile as nicely? It’s positively troublesome.
Betty Rocker (03:57):
And you’ve got 4 books now, right?
Amy Morin (04:00):
5.
Betty Rocker (04:01):
5, okay. So there’s 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do, 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Ladies Don’t Do. That’s my favourite guide. You could have 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Dad and mom Don’t Do. Is it 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Children?
Amy Morin (04:19):
This one is-
Betty Rocker (04:19):
I believe that title’s completely different.
Amy Morin (04:21):
This one is 13 Issues Sturdy Children Do.
Betty Rocker (04:23):
Yeah, Sturdy Children Do.
Amy Morin (04:25):
That’s the one one which’s do versus not do.
Betty Rocker (04:27):
I like that framework for the children. I knew there was a unique framework. Then you definately got here out with this unbelievable workbook that goes together with the 13 issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do, and I completely love the workbook and have been going by way of the workshops. I really feel very lucky to have had a variety of remedy, had the chance to work on a variety of issues that I struggled with personally in my life. But you’re by no means executed together with your work and having issues to work by way of. As a result of issues come up on a regular basis and you continue to get triggered, proper? I could be higher at not reacting or shortly, I could be higher at stopping to consider my response, however I nonetheless really feel indignant or harm or I get mad and I would like ideas and practices. All of us do to work by way of the challenges that we face daily.
Amy Morin (05:27):
That’s identical to when life goes easily. Generally it’s like, oh yeah, I’m doing nicely. However you by no means know the bump within the highway of one thing that you simply didn’t heal but, one thing that’s going to trouble you, issues which can be going to come back up for you. Issues that possibly you didn’t even know had been a difficulty and then you definitely run into. It could be an individual who for no matter purpose rubs you in a sure means, brings out the worst in you, and you need to do some work on: Why does this occur? Why do I lose my mood? Why am I so irritated with this individual? Or why do I all the time should get the final phrase in with this individual once I don’t do this in different conditions?
(05:58)
Or possibly it’s a scenario such as you encounter a monetary disaster otherwise you lose your job otherwise you’re in a unique relationship. No matter it’s, however all of those various things can generally fire up issues that we both didn’t know we hadn’t handled or simply new issues generally too. Perhaps you’ve by no means encountered any individual with a selected persona earlier than, and when you do you assume, “Oh yeah, I’m not executed engaged on myself but.”
Betty Rocker (06:24):
So true. I wish to get into a few of these, a few of my favourite issues I’ve discovered out of your work. However earlier than I do this, I’m really simply genuinely actually and interested by how you bought into the sort of work within the first place.
Amy Morin (06:37):
Properly, so I used to be going to be a health care provider on my first day of school. I assumed, oh, I’m going to be a pre-med pupil. It’s going to be nice. Then we needed to dissect cats on day two. All people was tremendous enthusiastic about dissecting a cat aside from me. So I known as my sister who had a level in psychology and stated, “I’m switching my main to psychology.” She stated, “Why don’t you go for social work? No less than you then get a level. A bachelor’s in psychology as of late is just too broad.” So switched my main to social work pondering I’ll change it later. I simply needed to not dissect a cat on day two. However I fell in love with social work. So I made a decision to get my grasp’s, and I simply actually needed to work with individuals. I knew then it wasn’t the medical side.
(07:18)
I assumed I wish to work with individuals and their minds, so turned a therapist and beloved it. Simply thought that is unbelievable to have the ability to speak to individuals and determine how individuals function. However I actually thought I used to be going to take what I discovered in faculty and apply it to different individuals’s lives. As a result of my life up till that time had been fairly good, however my mother handed away once I was 23. She had a mind aneurysm and it was actually sudden and sudden. She was fantastic. One minute I spoke to her on the cellphone just some hours earlier than she handed away and she or he was fantastic. So to lose her actually did a quantity on me. How do you subtract some of the essential individuals out of your life swiftly in such an sudden means? And so, I used to be actually then turned extra enthusiastic about psychological power from a private perspective of, okay, I wish to know what makes individuals tick and the way come some individuals undergo powerful occasions and so they come out higher on the opposite facet? Or how do some individuals simply keep extra hopeful and optimistic in life basically? And the extra I studied individuals, the extra I found out it wasn’t all the time about what they did. It was generally about what they didn’t do. As a therapist, I had a revolving door of simply case research all day lengthy. So whereas I hoped I used to be instructing them issues, I used to be additionally studying from individuals. And so I assumed, all proper, individuals who don’t do sure unhealthy habits are inclined to fare higher in life.
(08:35)
Then, that was the three yr anniversary of the day my mother died, my 26 yr outdated husband died of a coronary heart assault. Clearly while you’re 26 you’re not presupposed to have a coronary heart assault. He didn’t have any historical past of well being issues. Very like my mother, he’d been fantastic one minute and was gone the following. So then to be a 26-year-old widow and have to determine what do I do now, it was a extremely darkish place. I’m a therapist, so I ought to know the best way to describe emotions, and I’m an writer so that you’d assume I’d be good with phrases, however I don’t have any phrases for that part of my life apart from to say it was one thing I’d by no means want on anybody.
(09:11)
I simply grieved for an extended, very long time. But I used to be nonetheless presupposed to go to work and be a therapist. I didn’t have the luxurious of taking years off to work on myself or something like that. So I needed to go to work and be a therapist and assist different individuals take care of their issues, and actually simply targeted on: How do you construct psychological power? How do you preserve it? How do you undergo the grief with out going round when there’s one thing painful occurring? It’s our tendency to say, “I’m going to distract myself. I’m going to do every little thing I can to cheer myself up. I’ll do something to really feel higher.” However after we do this, we don’t undergo it. So I actual knew that I needed to undergo it, however on the identical time, I needed to undergo it in a means the place I needed to develop from it.
(09:51)
It took years to really feel like I used to be in a greater place. I assumed I’d by no means get remarried. I used to be simply sort of like, nicely, that was cool. I received to be married as soon as and I had love as soon as in my life. However was lucky sufficient, I discover love once more. Acquired a brand new home, a brand new job, began this recent begin in my life, after which my father-in-law received identified with most cancers. I used to be identical to, “I simply spent 10 years of my life grieving. I lastly one thing good occurs and right here we go once more.” I sat down and I wrote myself a letter of what mentally robust individuals don’t do. Once I was executed, I had an inventory of 13 issues. I put it on the web as a result of it was actually useful to me. So I assumed, “Ah, possibly it is going to assist any individual else.”
(10:32)
So I put it on the web pondering three individuals would learn it, however 50 million individuals learn the listing. One in all them occurred to be a literary agent who known as and stated, “You must write a guide.” I stated, “There’s a narrative behind it.” As a result of no person knew why I wrote the article. All people simply, Fox Information was calling in, Forbes Journal was reprinting my stuff. They had been like, “She’s a therapist. She is aware of all these things.” I used to be like, “Properly, there’s a bit extra to this story. I really wrote that letter as a result of I wanted it, not as a result of I’m claiming that I’ve this all found out. I’m in a extremely darkish place myself.”
(11:03)
However determined to inform the story. And so, I had a guide deal throughout the subsequent month, and earlier than I knew it, I wrote my first guide and a yr later that hit the cabinets. And right here it’s now, 10 years since I wrote the article. I nonetheless get to talk about psychological power and speak to individuals equally to the way in which I did in my remedy workplace. However now I get to do it on a giant stage and get to speak to individuals such as you in your podcast.
Betty Rocker (11:32):
Thanks and thanks a lot for sharing the backstory with us. I deal and speak to individuals on a regular basis coping with grief and never realizing the best way to course of it, not realizing what to do with it. I imply, what an exquisite factor to do to write down your self a letter within the first place, attempting to assist your self, but additionally with the background that you simply had, to have the data to attract from to write down that. I like what you’re so humbled, you saying, “No, I don’t have all of the solutions.” You framed the guide that means like, “Right here’s issues we don’t do.” You’re not saying, “Right here, I do know every little thing that you must do.” You’re saying, “Right here’s the issues I do know to not do.” I really feel like possibly one factor we learn about if we really feel like we all know issues, we all know that the most important factor we all know is that we don’t know every little thing. I believe it is a signal of knowledge is that you recognize that you simply don’t know in any respect.
Amy Morin (12:27):
Precisely. And once I was overwhelmed, the very last thing I needed was an inventory of 110 issues to do. As a result of I assumed if I simply get off the bed and brush my tooth immediately, I’d be going to chalk it up as a win. However so long as I knew, “Hey Amy, simply don’t do this stuff immediately and also you’ll be okay,” in some way that felt higher. So the identical with the individuals that might are available in my remedy workplace. You have already got good habits. It solely takes one counterproductive unhealthy behavior. If we will simply eliminate that one or two issues, possibly that may enable you transfer ahead in life. For me, that was loads simpler to deal with was simply don’t do these sure issues as a result of nothing good comes out of sure unhealthy habits. And within the health realm, any individual may run on the treadmill, but when they’re consuming a dozen jelly donuts proper earlier than they do, yeah, nicely, you may wish to hand over the jelly donuts. In any other case, working on the treadmill isn’t going to be almost as efficient.
Betty Rocker (13:19):
That’s so true. And it’s certainly one of my favourite issues within the first guide in The 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do is you will have… it’s the second on the listing. It’s, don’t give away your energy. And it’s in all probability some of the fashionable, most talked about of the listing in that guide. I imply, they’re all superb. However this one, I questioned if you happen to would converse to it a bit bit. Why did you add this to the listing? What does it imply? And why is it so essential in psychological power to not give away your energy?
Amy Morin (13:58):
You’re proper. That is positively one of many ones individuals wish to speak about most actually because I believe we do it probably the most and we don’t speak sufficient about this. So once I say, “Don’t give away your energy.”, what I’m actually referring to is don’t permit anyone else to have the facility to smash your day, to make you mad, to pressure you to do belongings you don’t wish to do, to really feel unhealthy about your self, all of this stuff that we frequently wish to blame on different individuals.
(14:24)
But when we cease and give it some thought, I’m accountable for how I believe, really feel and behave from the time I get up till the time I’m going to mattress. I get to decide on who I’m going to encompass myself with, I get to decide on what sort of ideas run by way of my head. I can reply to the destructive ideas I’ve in a wholesome means, if I wish to. I don’t should imagine what different individuals say about me.
(14:45)
But it surely’s so tempting in charge different individuals. You may say, “My boss makes me work late.” Your boss doesn’t make you. And whilst you may need penalties if you happen to didn’t work late, such as you didn’t get your work executed, you may get in hassle for that, possibly even get fired. However simply reframing your language to say, “I’m selecting to do that immediately.”
(15:05)
And we will do this with a number of stuff. I imply, even to at the present time, I’ll discover myself being like, “Oh, I’ve to go to the grocery retailer.” Properly, no, I don’t should go. If I don’t go, possibly I’m not going to have the ingredient I wish to make one thing. However the world’s nonetheless going to proceed to rotate on its entry, regardless. So generally simply altering our language and recognizing the people who we blame, the people who we give that energy to. As a result of generally we predict, “Oh, my coworker wastes my time.”, Or, “My mother-in-law steals all my vitality.” Or simply get an electronic mail 5 minutes earlier than we logged in about any individual who stated, “I’m actually bored with my household all the time following us on our trip.” It’s like prolonged household, the in-laws tag on to trip. “I don’t know what to do. They all the time smash our journeys.” Properly, inform them to not go.
(15:49)
You could have that possibility. However generally we overlook that now we have the facility to say no. We are able to set boundaries with individuals and that we get to make a variety of our personal decisions all day day-after-day. And that’s scary as a result of it means I’m accountable. However alternatively, it means I get to take duty for it. And if I wish to create one of the best life I can, I’ve that energy too.
Betty Rocker (16:11):
Sure. You talked about blaming others, which is among the issues why we put others down. Don’t put others all the way down to carry others up. That is in The 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Ladies Don’t Do, and it’s certainly one of my favorites in there. Why will we really feel the necessity to put different individuals down with the intention to construct ourselves up?
(16:32)
And I believe you had been relating some themes that sound like, we’re speaking a bit bit about individuals pleasing as a bent and never having an excellent template for setting good boundaries in our lives. These fundamental expertise that in the event that they’re not modeled to us very nicely as youngsters, to should be taught them as adults could be actually painful and troublesome. As a result of we wish to really feel beloved, we wish to be appreciated. And so many people are individuals pleasers.
(17:03)
I don’t know if you happen to’d agree, however I really feel like possibly extra ladies are individuals pleasers, tend to be individuals pleasers. To not say everybody can’t be a individuals pleaser, however I really feel like we’re type of ingrained in our methods to be good, to be good little ladies, and to be pleasing in so some ways, our look are speech, all of this stuff. And it’s difficult to interrupt these patterns, when they’re inflicting us to present away our energy.
Amy Morin (17:37):
Completely. And also you’re positively proper about all of these issues that you simply simply stated, that there’s societal pressures and norms and issues that trigger us to assume, “If I converse up, I received’t be appreciated.” And generally it’s true. You could be penalized at work. If converse out at a gathering and also you’re the one who says, “Really, I’m not going to go for this.”, or, “That’s not okay that we’re doing it this fashion.”, there could also be penalties to that. And ladies are inclined to face a few of these penalties maybe greater than males do.
(18:04)
So simply recognizing that although, and realizing, “Yeah, nicely, what’s the implications of not talking up?” Or, “What value am I paying, if I say sure to every little thing that’s requested of me? What does that imply I’m saying no to?” As a result of generally we predict, “Oh, all proper, I’m going to go do this favor for a buddy.” Properly, each time you do this, you’re saying no to one thing else. What may else may you will have executed together with your night? Or what else may you will have executed together with your time? If it’s one thing you actually didn’t wish to do, simply backing up and saying, “Properly, what else am I saying no to?” And that you simply don’t should. Simply recognizing you don’t should say sure to every little thing that’s requested of you. You don’t should be appreciated by everybody.
(18:40)
And it’s actually releasing. When you get to that time the place you assume, “Ah, so-and-so doesn’t like me, and I’m okay with that.”, is big. However for therefore lengthy, I imply, I spent a variety of my life feeling like, “Oh, if any individual doesn’t like me, it have to be one thing flawed with me.” Nope, that’s really not the case. And it took some time to get to the purpose the place I may very well be like, “Properly, that’s okay. If that individual doesn’t like me, may need one thing to do with me, my persona. May not. May need that I remind them of any individual else that they don’t like. Or it’d simply be one thing I stated that they disagreed with or who is aware of. But it surely’s actually none of my enterprise and I don’t should attempt to change my habits in a means that causes them to love me, if they only don’t like me. And that’s okay.”
Betty Rocker (19:22):
Proper. Being okay with them not liking us. And this type of jogs my memory of, I simply was pondering, why is it we so typically default to this mode of, I’m not adequate, after we consistently see different individuals because the authority, or that they’re adequate or that’s simply such a insidious sort of psychological loop I see lots of people get caught in?
Amy Morin (19:44):
That’s in all probability the primary factor that’s beneath nearly each purpose why individuals come into my remedy workplace, that they are going to say things-
Betty Rocker (19:53):
Their worthiness.
Amy Morin (19:54):
Yeah, we’ll ask a query generally, identical to, “Properly, what would that imply?” We did that about thrice. So if any individual says, ” Properly, I’ve to go to this factor on Saturday that I don’t wish to go to, an occasion, as a result of…” And so we’ll say, “Properly, what wouldn’t it imply if you happen to didn’t?” “Properly, it’d imply I’m a foul buddy.” “Properly, what would that imply if you happen to had been a foul buddy to this individual?” “Properly, then that might imply that I’m not very likable.” “Properly, what would that imply?” “Properly, it’d imply I’m not a adequate individual.” Often that’s what we uncover, after simply asking that query a couple of occasions. What wouldn’t it imply?
(20:22)
And it’s highly effective to try this as a result of we do, we predict, “I’m not a adequate individual. I’m not sensible sufficient. I’m not, I don’t know, adequate at social media.” There’s 1,000,000 issues individuals give you. I’m not enticing sufficient, I don’t have the funds for, I’m not good sufficient. After which after we stroll round feeling like that, actually deep down at our core, I imply, it impacts the way in which we take into consideration ourselves. After we mess up, it’s proof if I’m not adequate. And when any individual doesn’t such as you, and that’s simply extra proof that clearly you’re not adequate. And it’s like we gather proof that basically reinforces that perception that clearly, I’m not adequate.
(20:56)
And when there’s proof on the contrary, like your boss says you probably did an important job, otherwise you do one thing actually variety for any individual, it’s like we chalk it as much as luck. Like, “Properly, that one factor.” Or we predict, “Properly, any individual else helped with it, so the half I performed was actually no large deal.” We actually downplay these issues as a result of we’re simply caught on the lookout for proof of clearly I’m not adequate.
Betty Rocker (21:21):
And we’re not in a position to acknowledge the issues that we did. Identical to you talked a short time in the past about not with the ability to take duty for our personal half in issues after we’re blaming different individuals, we’re not acknowledging the issues that we did. And there’s nearly a duty there to acknowledge, to see ourselves for all of the work that we’re placing in. After which that is the consequence of that, that you simply received praised for that. It’s not as a result of there’s… that’s it. You earned this.
(21:52)
And but there’s this… One in all my favourite of the tenets in The 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Ladies Don’t Do was, don’t insist on perfection. And this is among the greatest issues that I see in my health and well being model. And that is so, so widespread as a result of it looks like there’s this invisible guidelines. I must be an ideal mother. I must be an ideal spouse. I have to have an ideal physique. I have to have an ideal job. I would like all these and all this stuff I have to stack on prime of one another. And so they all must be excellent always. And since they by no means shall be, we’re all the time a failure at every little thing. We’re all the time feeling like we don’t measure up, we’re undeserving.
(22:41)
And that is on the coronary heart of a variety of the deeper work that we attempt to do to heal that mentality with people who find themselves striving to be wholesome, simply bodily wholesome. Psychological well being is a big a part of that. So, I’ll use phrases like [flawsome 00:23:02]. I’ve an idea known as, all or one thing, as an alternative of all or nothing. However you will have written about this so fantastically, this perfection drawback. Why will we really feel that we must be so excellent?
Amy Morin (23:18):
Once more, I believe it goes again to that concept of, “If I had been simply excellent sufficient, then I’d be adequate.”
Betty Rocker (23:23):
Ok. Yeah.
Amy Morin (23:25):
Then we transfer the bar. So even after we set a aim, you obtain it, and it doesn’t deliver the happiness or the aid that you simply assume it’s going to. So whether or not it’s a weight reduction aim or health aim, or possibly it’s a aim about schooling or cash, after we attain that, then we hit like, “Properly, it doesn’t deliver me the satisfaction I assumed it was going to.” So, we set one other aim and transfer the bar a bit bit like, “If I simply did this a bit extra, I had a bit bit extra, then I’d lastly really feel adequate.”
(23:51)
And I see this occur on a regular basis, that individuals preserve transferring the bar. And on the skin they appear like actually, actually pleased, profitable individuals, as a result of they’re reaching all of this stuff. However on the within they’re sort of depressing as a result of they’re pondering, “Yeah, however I’m doing all of this, however I nonetheless don’t really feel like I’m adequate.”
(24:06)
And the opposite factor I see lots of people do is self sabotage. And it sounds extremely unusual that we’d do that, however we in all probability all have examples of after we’ve executed this in our life. Whenever you’re engaged on a aim and also you’re not fairly certain if you will get there or not, and there’s anxiousness, there’s a rigidity, and there’s the questioning. After which there’s the worry too of like, “Properly, if I do attain that aim, what occurs? And what if I do my best possible and it’s not adequate? Then it is going to simply show to me that actually, I’m not adequate.” And folks will say, “Properly, there’s a giant worry of failure.” However I believe a variety of it’s really the worry of attempting your finest and never reaching it, as a result of then what would that imply?
(24:45)
So I see individuals throw within the towel earlier than they get there, and generally individuals don’t even know they’re doing it. And any individual who stated, “I’m engaged on my health aim.”, possibly they’ve a complete week the place they only eat junk meals and so they don’t train in any respect, proper earlier than they get to the end line of a sure aim they had been going to succeed in. After which they are saying, “Properly, yeah, I’m unsure what occurred.”, or, “I simply misplaced motivation.” However actually it was like this anxiousness. And that’s the easiest way to eliminate it, is if you happen to assume, “There’s this uncertainty, if I’m going to have the ability to dangle in there lengthy sufficient, and the easiest way to eliminate the uncomfortable uncertainty is for me to simply blow it. If I simply go and do that different factor and blow it myself, then I don’t should have that angst of and the stress that I would really feel whereas I’m ready to see if I can attain the aim.”
(25:25)
See that occurs so typically, and it’s typically rooted on this concept that I’ve to be excellent. And if I’m not excellent, I’m not adequate. After which this concept of, “Properly, I’m simply going to blow it anyway as a result of clearly I’m not adequate.” And it’s reinforcing a sample of habits emerges, after which individuals simply see believing, “Properly see, I couldn’t do it, so subsequently I’m not adequate.” Very unusual, however I guess if all of us seemed in our lives, we may discover occasions after we’ve executed this ourselves.
Betty Rocker (25:50):
I certain can. And I see it day-after-day. Particularly like we’re utilizing health for example, since that’s my enterprise, I see individuals leap from program to program as a result of they don’t really give the time to this system they’re doing proper as a result of it doesn’t give a quick sufficient outcome. And anticipating this quick outcome from issues is one other symptom of a much bigger drawback. And it’s one thing else that you simply speak about, in fact, since you’ve recognized it as one of many issues that mentally robust individuals don’t do is that they don’t count on this in a single day, rapid outcome. However earlier than I speak about that, one factor I needed to ask is how do you assist individuals dismantle this perception that they’re undeserving?
Amy Morin (26:34):
So we chip away at it generally in a couple of completely different instructions. So one is training their self-talk and simply having a look on the means they consider themselves. And most of the people don’t speak to themselves almost as kindly as they even assume that they do. For those who ask individuals, they could be like, “Oh, I’m sort of onerous on myself generally.” However we’ll actually dissect the way in which that they assume. They may preserve a journal for every week or a log about what they’re really pondering, and we check out it and individuals are normally stunned to see how typically they name themselves names, they put themselves down. And so they’ll sit in my workplace and be like, “I’m verbally abusive to myself, and I had no concept that this voice in my head tells me consistently ‘I’m silly,’ ‘I’m fats,’ ‘I’m ugly,’ ‘I’m not adequate,’ ‘I can’t probably succeed,’ ‘No person likes you,’ no matter it’s. However lots of people will discover that they’ve a tape working of their head that they didn’t even discover as a result of it’s been there for therefore lengthy that they didn’t notice how destructive it’s.
(27:29)
So generally we chip away at that and we observe some self-compassion. For those who wouldn’t say it to a buddy, don’t say it to your self. However if you happen to do, while you catch your self, as a result of this behavior’s going to be onerous to vary while you catch your self pondering horrible issues, you’re going to speak again to that voice and say, “Really, you probably did okay immediately and also you tried your hardest,” or, “That’s in all probability not true, that is simply your anxiousness telling you that you will mess every little thing up. As an alternative, you’re in all probability going to be okay.” Simply ask your self, “What would I say to my buddy proper now?” And also you give your self that very same recommendation. In order that’s a method we chip away at it. Different individuals, we sort of simply check out all of the proof. All proper, you’re feeling such as you’re not adequate. What’s the proof that that’s true? We’d have an inventory of 101 issues they’ll give you from the previous month that claims, “I’m not adequate.”
(28:16)
However then we take the flip facet of it, and let’s take a look at the proof that possibly you’re adequate, give you an extended listing there too, simply to acknowledge that possibly your mind performs methods on you. You don’t should imagine every little thing that you simply assume. And for different individuals, it’s about altering the habits first. So another person may say, “Properly, I’m not adequate so I don’t trouble to attempt for a promotion,” or, “I don’t trouble to attempt to take cost of my well being as a result of it’s not going to work anyway,” or, “I don’t trouble going out as a result of individuals aren’t going to love me.” So we are saying, “Let’s problem that perception.” It’s a behavioral experiment. Let’s say you really do exit and do a kind of issues. And what may a aim be? Perhaps you’re going to go to this networking occasion, you’re going to introduce your self to 5 individuals, and we’re going to chalk that as much as success.
(28:57)
I don’t care if you happen to get a variety of enterprise from this occasion, let’s simply say that’s your aim and also you go on the market and do it. We begin with small steps and other people begin altering their habits first after which they see, “Oh, possibly my mind does underestimate me or possibly it does misinform me generally,” and you may show your self flawed. But it surely takes small steps. And when you’ve held on to a perception for a very long time, it doesn’t go away in a single day both, you’re not going to get up tomorrow and be like, “I really feel nice, I’m superb.” It’s going to take a while. And there’ll be completely different factors in your life the place it creeps again up on you. So if you happen to get rejected for one thing otherwise you fail at one thing, there’s an excellent probability these beliefs may come again up. Otherwise you hit a bout the place you battle with despair, a variety of these beliefs will begin to get stirred up once more. And they may not even be associated to an exterior occasion, it’d simply be about what’s occurring within you.
(29:46)
However when you be taught to acknowledge that, “Okay, I’m headed again down into this spiral, how do I guarantee that I don’t behave in a means that reinforces that perception?” And folks have the arrogance to say, “All proper, I’m headed down that path once more, however right here’s what I’m going to do as an alternative. I’m nonetheless going to exit, I’m nonetheless going to go do this stuff, I’m nonetheless going to attempt one thing new.” And it interrupts that cycle so that they don’t really feel like they’re headed down that very same spiral.
Betty Rocker (30:10):
These are actually highly effective ideas, and I really feel it’s so essential to remind ourselves that our mind, no matter we’re pondering, the spiral that we’re in isn’t every little thing that we’re able to occupied with. And generally we’d like a reminder for somebody to say, “Hey, look, you’re so targeted on this whole laundry listing of issues that you simply assume are flawed with you or that you simply’ve executed flawed. And all of us make errors in life, and also you’re so targeted on those who you’ve failed to have a look at the listing of the issues that you simply’ve executed nicely, the generosity that you simply’ve exhibited, all of the belongings you’ve executed so nicely. And it’s like, so which facet, the nice or the destructive, are you going to feed mentally about your self together with your destructive ideas? And I discussed errors a minute in the past, and I really feel like we repeat our errors again and again generally. After which as I simply surprise, why will we repeat our errors so simply?
Amy Morin (31:23):
A few causes. I believe generally we simply have a go-to. It could be one thing that we attain for after we’re indignant, one thing we do after we’re anxious. And we don’t actually acknowledge, “Why did I do this? What’s the emotion behind why I did it?” Perhaps it’s since you’re bored, possibly it’s since you’re lonely. And recognizing that emotion and what’s a greater option to handle it will probably typically preserve us from doing that. So it could be that any individual has a aim in relation to their meals and so they say, “I’m not going to eat sure meals. However then once I’m actually stressed, guess what I do? I’m going again to these outdated habits.” Or any individual who’s has a monetary aim and he’s like, “Properly, once I’m lonely, what do I do? I store on-line.” So simply recognizing what’s the emotion? What was the set off that led to that? After which what can I do as an alternative? Subsequent time I really feel that emotion, what am I going to do? And generally individuals will give you a plan too. I’m going to plan forward.
(32:15)
So there was a person I labored with who used to say, “Amy, day-after-day after work, I wish to go to the health club. After which as soon as I really get out of labor, I’m like, ‘I’m drained. I’m going to go residence immediately.’” So we got here up with an inventory on his steering wheel of the highest 10 explanation why he ought to go to the health club as a result of when he pulled out of the car parking zone, he may go and he may go residence, or he may flip left and he may go to the health club. So earlier than he began his automotive day-after-day he would learn this listing of the ten explanation why he ought to go to the health club and speak himself into it as an alternative of permitting himself to speak himself out of it.
(32:46)
Or I had one other lady I labored with who had an ex who wasn’t good for her, however when she noticed his quantity on the cellphone, she would instantly reply it. And she or he was excited to listen to from him, however deep down she knew it wasn’t good for her. So we taped an inventory of all of the explanation why she shouldn’t reply the cellphone to the again of her cellphone.
Betty Rocker (33:02):
I like it.
Amy Morin (33:03):
And when the cellphone would would ring, she knew if it was him, earlier than she may decide up, she a minimum of needed to learn that listing. And if she nonetheless felt like answering the cellphone on the finish of that, then she’d give herself permission to do it. She’d flipped the cellphone over and she or he’d begin to learn a few of the explanation why she shouldn’t speak to him. And she or he stated, “Yeah, no. Then it was simple, I didn’t decide the cellphone up as a result of I used to be in a position to be reminded.” But it surely nonetheless is feelings that always speak us into doing issues we don’t wish to do. Her pleasure to reply the cellphone made her overlook about all of the unhealthy issues he’d executed to her previously, or the man who will get out of labor and thinks he’s drained talks himself into going residence. However he discovered the best way to speak himself into really doing one thing that was more healthy. So simply getting a greater deal with on what our feelings are and the way these feelings drive our choices makes an enormous distinction.
Betty Rocker (33:49):
That’s an incredible share. And it jogs my memory a bit little bit of the way you began this dialog with me, telling me concerning the letter you wrote to your self, which had 13 Issues That Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do as a means so that you can cope together with your grief. And what a robust means that’s to work with the innate intelligence of your personal thoughts. So from each of those two individuals within the examples you simply shared, every of them had the listing in their very own head. They’d all the explanations and the entire examples themselves to assist themselves, however they might fixate on the rapid sensation, the rapid feeling within the second. For her, it was that robust overpowering affiliation of the love they used, the couple used to share. For the person, it was his fatigue on the finish of the day. And but once they may take a look at the listing of issues that they themselves had considered, the intention that that they had set, they had been in a position to observe by way of with their aim.
(34:46)
And I beloved too the way you had them put the listing in a major place the place they may see it through the time when that motion would occur. What a robust device that anybody may do. I imply, if you happen to catch your self, so one factor we see loads within the health business is individuals physique checking. In order that they’re consistently trying within the mirror to see how does their physique look? How does it examine to different individuals’s our bodies? How does it examine to what their expectation is of their head of perfection? And this may be actually damaging due to all that psychological self-talk that we had been speaking about. And so I’ve the considered why not write an inventory of all the explanations that you’re adequate, what are the issues about your self which can be so fantastic that you possibly can possibly see while you look within the mirror? And if you happen to can’t consider them, use what Amy stated a couple of minutes in the past; what would certainly one of your folks let you know about your self?
(35:39)
For those who had been speaking to certainly one of your folks and she or he was telling you all these horrible issues about herself and saying how shitty she felt and the way fats she was and all this, you don’t sit there and say, “Yeah, you’re proper. You’re a shitty individual, you’re fats, you’re horrible.” You say, “Oh my gosh, let me let you know what I see in you. Let me be that mirror to mirror again the greatness that I see in you, my pricey buddy.” So you will have the chance to be that mirror to your self to mirror again these optimistic issues. And if you happen to can’t, take into consideration what your buddy would let you know and write them down on an inventory, and put that in your mirror and take a look at it anytime you’re feeling the necessity to have a look at your self critically. It’s not that now we have to not see issues that we wish to work on in ourselves, it’s not that we will’t have flaws. This is the reason I like Flawsome as a result of I really feel prefer it’s we’re human, we’re presupposed to have issues to work on, it’s regular.
(36:32)
However to be so fixated on them and to make use of that to undermine our happiness, this takes away the enjoyment of life and can derail you from reaching objectives, I believe. And that’s what these books are so useful for, they only actually take you on that journey of creating psychological power and having a reference. Whenever you’re feeling crappy to select up a guide like this and browse one thing uplifting and browse a psychological framework shift, I believe all of us want that. It’s onerous within the second while you’re associating a robust emotion to tug your self out of that alone with out instruments.
Amy Morin (37:13):
Completely. And generally individuals will say to me, “Why’d you make your guide destructive? It’s about what to not do.” And I’ll attempt to clarify to them, “I don’t know. I discover it releasing to say, ‘Okay, Amy, simply don’t do these sure issues immediately and also you’ll be okay.’” And I don’t discover it to be destructive to say, “Let’s hand over your worst habits.” And as a therapist, I used to be skilled to actually construct on individuals’s strengths. Once they are available in, level out what they’re doing nicely, assist them preserve doing that. Yeah, completely, that’s an exquisite factor to do. However what if I don’t level out the one or two belongings you’re doing that outweighs the entire optimistic issues you will have? I felt like I used to be doing individuals a disservice if I didn’t say, “However by the way in which, though you observe gratitude 23 hours a day, it’s that one hour that you simply spend indulging and feeling sorry for your self that’s outdoing all of the gratitude. Let’s determine the best way to deal with that too so that you simply don’t do this. I would like your good habits to be efficient.”
Betty Rocker (38:02):
And as adults, I really feel like we are inclined to stack up these to-do lists. We talked about this earlier. We have a tendency to simply begin to construct all of those to-do lists round our days, how a lot stuff now we have to do. It’s very releasing to take some issues off the listing. So I just like the framework. I famous that the children guide, like we had been speaking about earlier, once I was attempting to recollect the best way to say it accurately, as a result of it breaks the format.
Amy Morin (38:27):
Proper.
Betty Rocker (38:27):
Children, alternatively, want a unique construction, right? You framed that within the optimistic for an excellent purpose.
Amy Morin (38:35):
Yeah. When it got here to the children guide, my ideas had been, “I hope that if we train children these wholesome habits now, like perseverance, then we don’t have to show them not to surrender after failure as an grownup.” So if we train these optimistic issues now, they received’t develop the unhealthy habits that the majority of us did as a result of we didn’t be taught this stuff as children. And likewise, I had a niece who was 10 on the time, and she or he stated, “Oh, Auntie Ame, we get advised what to not do on a regular basis. Are you able to simply write a guide for teenagers about what to do?” And I assumed you’re proper, we must always have a guide about what to do for teenagers. So I used to be excited to have the ability to write that guide as a result of children don’t be taught these things. The explanation I assume I wrote it within the first place was once I wrote my first guide, the most important query I had was from dad and mom who stated, “Now, how do I train this to my children?” So I wrote a parenting guide to assist dad and mom determine, how do you do that at residence? However then dad and mom had been actually asking, “Okay, now what else do I do to assist reinforce this to my children?”
(39:27)
And that’s why the children’ guide got here after that was as a result of I needed dad and mom to have the abilities first, as a result of then you may reinforce it. After which I needed children to have the ability to sit down and browse one thing about tales about different children and to know, “That is what labored for this child, or this child struggles with one thing like I do too. Right here’s what can work.” And that was a extremely enjoyable one to write down too.
Betty Rocker (39:48):
Tales are so highly effective and essential for us to grasp ourselves. I believe you’re so proper.
Amy Morin (39:52):
Sure.
Betty Rocker (39:54):
I completely love… I believe too, relating the theme of how will we construct wholesome habits into children? And since such as you stated, as adults, we’re having to unlearn a variety of unhealthy habits or break templates that had been put in in our working techniques with out anyone intending for that to occur. However that’s simply the way it occurred. And right here we go. Now we’re adults having malfunctions with our working system. I used to say once I was doing a variety of remedy was I used to be attempting to reprogram my mind. I used to be attempting to eliminate a few of the bugs in my working system and attempting to put in some upgraded software program principally as a result of I wasn’t functioning in a wholesome means on a regular basis.
Amy Morin (40:44):
And that’s a great way to place it, as a result of we don’t discover it. It’s our personal mind. So it’s onerous to note what our errors are or how the habits which can be holding us again. And oldsters will say, “I don’t know what to do. How do I train my children?” And a variety of the habits dad and mom have, your children be taught by watching you. So in my remedy workplace, I labored with children for a very long time and children would say issues like, “Properly, I don’t assume my dad and mom ever get indignant.” Or, “What does your mother do when she’s unhappy?” They’re like, “I don’t know. I’ve by no means actually seen her unhappy.” Or, “They actually solely get indignant once I go away my toys out. However that’s it. Apart from that, my dad and mom don’t get mad.”
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As a result of we simply don’t speak about feelings at residence. When dad and mom make errors, we don’t wish to go to the children and apologize. As a result of a variety of dad and mom are like, “I don’t wish to look weak. I don’t wish to inform them I’m tousled.” All of us make errors. So nearly position modeling the children. What do you do while you make a mistake? How do you come clean with it? It’s embarrassing. What do you say? Otherwise you’ve tousled and royally in entrance of a complete bunch of individuals. How do you are taking duty for that? Or how do you speak to your children? You don’t wish to burden them with grownup issues by telling them about your boss and different points occurring at work. However alternatively, you need children to know, generally life is hard and right here’s what I do.
(41:53)
Whether or not you learn a guide otherwise you train, no matter sorts of coping methods you will have for teenagers to know, “Oh, that’s why mother or dad does this stuff as a result of they’re attempting to take care of their unhappy feelings. Or once they’re indignant, that is what they do and that’s how they take care of it”. And simply placing a label on emotions. I don’t learn about you, however at my home as a child, we didn’t actually speak that a lot about emotions, emotion phrases, that sort of stuff. They didn’t actually come up in on a regular basis dialog. And lots of people don’t know at the same time as adults, how do you label an emotion? How do you speak about it?
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The extra we do this for teenagers, the extra that we at residence can say issues like, “It appears to be like such as you’re indignant proper now. Let’s determine what to do.” Or, ” I’m feeling actually sort of unhappy immediately, so I’m not going to try this.” Or no matter it’s. However for teenagers to know that all of us have feelings and all of us have decisions in how we handle these feelings is usually a nice first step into instructing children the best way to develop as much as be mentally stronger.
Betty Rocker (42:45):
That’s superb. I believe loads concerning the position modeling that you simply talked about. Quite a lot of the ladies I handle in my communities, one of many dialog factors now we have loads is children don’t decide up what you inform them to do, they decide up what you present them the best way to be. And this factor concerning the fixed beating ourselves up mentally, generally that destructive self-talk in the direction of our personal our bodies and this fixed shaming of our physique for not being excellent, we be taught that from watching another person mannequin it. And so we’re inadvertently modeling that to the children that come after us.
(43:24)
And so actually understanding that and realizing that this work is so essential to do, not only for your self, however for the children who’re trying as much as you. And possibly it’s not simply your personal children, however may very well be children that you simply come into contact with, and different individuals as nicely. We now have such an affect by way of our habits and taking possession of that’s so essential. I actually love that entire framework that you’ve there.
Amy Morin (43:55):
Thanks. I like what you simply stated, that we will affect individuals round us. As a result of I hear a lot the place individuals are like, “Properly, you may’t change anybody else.” You’ll be able to’t pressure anyone else to vary. However I assure you may have an enormous affect on your loved ones, whether or not it’s your associate, your neighbor, your folks, the individuals you spend time with, your feelings are contagious and the way in which that you simply deal with them. And while you position mannequin boundaries for different individuals, you may have a big impact on how they work together with others. You’ll be able to train individuals so many issues by the way in which that we behave. So I’m glad that you simply introduced that up too.
Betty Rocker (44:28):
I believe a variety of what I preserve occupied with as we speak about this are households and loving partnerships. I believe a lot of this interpersonal battle that individuals have comes from household relationships. Boundary setting is the toughest. You may discover a option to observe it at work, however you battle to observe it at residence within the household setting. And it’s just like the individuals who we love probably the most, we battle probably the most with in individuals pleasing and boundary setting in all of those facets of our interpersonal relationships. It takes a really mentally robust individual to have the ability to break programming with the core, with the household. Wouldn’t you say?
Amy Morin (45:19):
Completely. The way in which that we grew up impacts us in so some ways. And people who have recognized you for a very long time may have sure expectations of you. I’ve advised this story earlier than. My sister’s a therapist now, she’s 4 years older than I’m. And once I was a child, I used to be tremendous shy and she or he spoke for me. I simply by no means talked. She all the time talked for me.
(45:38)
She came visiting me a couple of years in the past and we had been exterior. And I stay in South Florida the place it’s actually sunny. And so she was going to ask the wait employees if we may have an umbrella at our desk. However she was asking for me as a result of she forgets that as an grownup, I can speak now. I child you not. I’m not the identical shy child. However identical with buddies, household from again residence anticipating me to be the actually shy child that I used to be as a result of they knew me again then. And so once they hear me now, they’re like, “You could have a podcast?” “Do you actually hear me?
(46:07)
Issues like that as a result of we get caught in a variety of these roles. Otherwise you may say, “Properly, I’ve by no means set a boundary with my mom earlier than.” And right here I’m 40 years outdated and I’m attempting to inform her, “No, really I’m not going to speak to you about that.” Or, “That’s not your corporation.” Or, “I’m going to hold the cellphone up if you happen to speak to me like that.” Feels actually weird. However generally these are our greatest alternatives to say, “That is the place I would like to begin training this stuff.” And yeah, there could be repercussions for it, nevertheless it may also be one of many kindest and finest issues we will do is to set more healthy boundaries with individuals and to attempt to outgrow a few of these labels and expectations that individuals may need on us.
Betty Rocker (46:45):
And likewise hearkening again to what you stated about how our actions and behaviors affect individuals round us. In sibling relationships, if one sibling has the braveness to face up and set a boundary, it offers the others an instance that it’s a minimum of a chance to indicate one other option to do issues.
Amy Morin (47:09):
Precisely. As a result of we see household dynamics get so weird and you’ve got siblings. Granted any individual within the household’s in all probability scuffling with a psychological well being difficulty, a substance abuse difficulty, prolonged household, and who’s speaking to who, and other people begin taking sides and issues can get actually difficult. And realizing, all proper, regardless of how difficult issues are or how messy it’s, it’s nonetheless as much as me to say, “That is what I’m going to permit in my life and the way I wish to be handled.”
Betty Rocker (47:36):
So true. It’s all the time so private. That is the factor, your psychological well being is so private and that’s why it’s as much as you to do the work to handle it. And a variety of you listening, do the work to handle your bodily well being. You go to the ends of your time, your vitality to handle your bodily well being. And a part of one of many causes I actually needed to interview Amy and share her with all of you is as a result of your psychological well being is a very powerful well being that you’ve.
(48:12)
Caring for it, investing the time and taking good care of it in these ideas that you’ve and in the way in which you develop power all through your day-to-day life and thru the encounters you will have with different individuals, to me it’s been a very powerful side of my very own progress and happiness. I actually, actually respect these books, this work. It’s so wanted and precious and I’m so grateful that you simply got here to speak to us about all of it immediately.
(48:47)
I wish to share a few of the locations individuals can join with you. However earlier than I do this, I wish to provide the final phrase. Is there something that we didn’t contact on that you simply’d wish to impart or share with individuals listening?
Amy Morin (49:00):
I assume I’d simply say you’re stronger than you assume. Don’t imagine your mind on a regular basis. And to do issues on function that mean you can see how cool you’re, how highly effective you’re, whether or not it’s a health problem and also you simply don’t hearken to your mind. I inform my viewers, I’m going working day-after-day and I run as quick as I can and my mind will inform me, “Oh, you need to cease. You’ll be able to’t preserve this up.” I on purposely simply preserve working simply to seek out methods to show to myself that I don’t should hearken to my mind. I believe after we all do these issues, it teaches us that, “Yeah, I’m extra stronger and extra succesful than my mind offers me credit score for.”
Betty Rocker (49:34):
Additionally true. Thanks for sharing that. Now you talked about earlier you will have a podcast, The Verywell Thoughts Podcast. Did I say it proper?
Amy Morin (49:42):
You probably did.
Betty Rocker (49:44):
That’s the podcast. So take a look at Amy’s podcast, The Verywell Thoughts Podcast. You’ll be able to observe her on Instagram. Is it amymorinauthor on Instagram?
Amy Morin (49:53):
Yep.
Betty Rocker (49:55):
And Fb, in fact, you may simply guide her up. Amy Morin. Every other locations you need me to inform them that they’ll discover you that I didn’t point out?
Amy Morin (50:04):
I assume my web site’s, the opposite finest web site which is amymorinlcsw, as in licensed medical social employee.com.
Betty Rocker (50:12):
And there you could find entry to all of her unbelievable books, this superior new workbook that she has for the unique guide. 13 Issues Mentally Sturdy Folks Don’t Do. I like that you’ve these books for fogeys and children as nicely now. Simply improbable. This guide for ladies. Learn all of the books that she has. They’re superb. And I encourage you to additionally take a look at her movies that she shares on her Instagram web page since you’re all the time giving tidbits and nuggets and issues that assist me keep related to the issues I discovered within the books. They remind me to go take a look at the books once I want inspiration generally.
(50:48)
So once more, Amy, thanks a lot on your time immediately and for sharing all of those nice ideas with us and these tales, and we sit up for connecting with you once more very quickly.
Amy Morin (50:59):
Thanks a lot for having me.
Betty Rocker (60:05)
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