The Importance of Not Being Someone With Idiot Compassion

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We feel so naked when somebody says, here's something about you that I notice, and we're not proud of that thing. We often want to say, No, that's not me too. And thanks to your book, I'm more aware of how I'll try to be better at not being somebody with idiot compassion.

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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