Glennon Doyle

I don't know what I'm talking about, but there's something about anxiety and depression that also has to do with being someone who's awake and paying attention.

So I don't know that it's a curse we pass on.

I think it's a tricky life.

It's trickier maybe, maybe harder in some ways, but I wouldn't trade it.

I wouldn't be different.

So beginning with that, there are things that we are learning are not ours that were passed down to us

then it's tricky to be a person who is then, you know, you're passing down stuff to your kids that is not theirs.

I don't know exactly how to solve that, but I do have one story to tell you that is the closest I've come.

Okay, so my youngest was at the table and she was talking about this kid that is in her high school that I do not like.

Okay?

And I have a lot of reasons for feeling this way.

And when people bring up things or people that scare me, like when people I love signal to me that they are opening their lives to things or people that scare me, what I go to immediately is judgment.

That is what I, that is my security blanket.

I am a good arguer.

I make a good case against people.

If you bring up somebody who I think is unsafe, if you give me eight minutes, I can make a case that you will never text that person back.

Okay.

It's a skill that I have developed and it's not kind and it's not real.

And it is only because I'm very scared of letting people in the first, uh,

time I went to therapy for this new round of eating disorder recovery, the therapist looked at me and said, Glennon, how is how you handle people the same way as how you handle food?