The Importance of Humor in Therapy

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It's moving every minute, is incredibly moving. I wanted to kind of capture the ridiculousness of the human condition. Each one of them has a completely different issue that you're dealing with. It's so much easier to see oneself through story, through other people's stories.

In Lori Gottlieb's new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, she opens with a quote from James Baldwin that reads, "Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

In this episode, we talk about therapy, how it works, the misconceptions around it, and how people go from resisting change to embracing the behaviors required to alter their own thoughts and feelings when stuck in destructive, unhealthy loops. You'll also learn the difference between idiot compassion and wise compassion.

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