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Ep. 308 Divorce Panel Rant: If You Tell Her to Calm Down… You’ve Missed the Point · Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce

• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, love.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, the podcast helping divorcees go beyond talk therapy to process your grief, find the healing you crave, and build back your confidence.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Don Wiggins, a therapist, coach, integrative healer, and divorcee.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think that's what we're talking about today.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: Someone saying you need to calm down as like, oh, I need to act different to make you feel comfortable, right?
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's some truth to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also, maybe, you know, maybe there's some truth in what I'm expressing, also.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's the I thou, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Martin Buber is a philosopher from like 1930, 40, something, 20, I don't know, shame on me.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: But like he's like one of the early, like pre-Freud um philosophers that led to the development of like what we call modern day therapy, right?
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: And it's the acknowledgement of the I and the thou in relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so whether we're checking out at the grocery store or we're sitting in a therapy therapist's office, or like we're on Facebook in the comments with someone, or we're in, you know, I don't know, friendships, family relationships, you name it, right?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's an I and there's a thou.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in order for there to be connection, which is where we all feel safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all feel safe when there's connection, right?
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: There has to be an acknowledgement of the I and the thou.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that takes.
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