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I'm Dr. Jennifer Reid, a board-certified psychiatrist, author of Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life From Unreasonable Expectations, and host of A Mind of Her Own. My mission is speaking out to counter misinformation about mental health, one science-backed topic at a time.
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The Four Furies of Unreasonable Expectations (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome to A Mind of Her Own! I’m Jennifer Reid, a psychiatrist and the author of the book, Guilt Free, Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations . Today is Episode 4 in my series called Guilt Free, For Real. (Want to catch up? Here are the first three episodes: 1. Solving the Guilt Equation (Finally!) 2. The Guilt Divide: Women, Men and the Emotions We’re Taught to Feel 3. Why Can’t I Ditch this Awful Guilt? ) This episode today (corresponding with chapter three in the book
"Why Can't I Ditch this Awful Guilt?" (opens the original)
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Hello, I’m Jennifer Reid, MD. Welcome to this episode of A Mind of Her Own, the third in the series called Guilt Free, for Real. In today’s episode, I share 3 of the most common reasons guilt can be such a sticky emotion. (Hint: because it “helps” us in some ways.) When I’m working with individuals as a psychiatrist, there are often situations where someone says, “I know that this is not good for me, and yet I keep doing it. I keep going back to a relationship that isn’t healthy for me. I keep d
The Guilt Divide: Women, Men and the Emotions We're Taught to Feel (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome to A Mind of Her Own . I’m Jennifer Reid, MD, a psychiatrist and author. This is the second episode of my series, Guilt Free, For Real . Today, I wanted to talk to you about something that I’m asked about a lot on podcasts and interviews, “Is guilt always bad?” After all, the name of my book is Guilt Free , which suggests that we’re trying to eliminate any and all guilt. Interestingly, when I was researching guilt, what I learned is that guilt actually can be adaptive. In fact
Solving The Guilt Equation (Finally!) (opens the original)
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Hello! I’m Jennifer Reid, a psychiatrist, educator, podcast host and author. ( jenniferreidmd.com ) Welcome to my A Mind of Her Own podcast series, Guilt Free, For Real. You may not realize just how often guilt shows up in your life, but once you see it, you’ll never forget. Subscribe to hear future episodes walking you through my book Guilt Free. Why Did I Write This Book? As a psychiatrist, I was hearing from so many women in my practice, my personal life, (my mirror,) this feeling of “I’m doi
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