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Refresher: Saving One Starfish at a Time
When people ask what I do for a living I say, ?I try to save kids!? And marriages. And families. And I love when my listeners help. Let's save one kid, marriage and family at a time like the story of the starfish, which is the focus of today's classic Deep Dive Podcast.
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(Divorced) Home For the Holidays
It never fails. In the months leading up to the holidays, I start getting calls from listeners looking for ways to deal with impending family dramas.
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How Helping Your Kids Can Hold Them Back
Raising children to become independent adults is every parent?s task, but there?s an increasing phenomenon of kids who experience a ?failure to launch? into their 20s and even 30s. Far too many adult children are not just living off their parents or with their parents, they actually expect it to be that way.
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Refresher: The Book I Never Wrote
When I discuss my bestselling book, ?The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands,? there's inevitably a chorus of women who say, ?I'll read this book when you write one about how husbands should treat their wives.? Find out why my listener Charlotte knows better as we revisit this classic Deep Dive Podcast and you?ll see why your Thanksgiving can be the happiest of one between a husband and wife!
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Surviving Thanksgiving - Tips for Family Gatherings
There?s a prominent conservative news host who announced that, since the election, his liberal mother has un-invited him from Thanksgiving dinner . How sad to destroy a family over something like politics ...
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Society Needs Strong Men
An interesting phenomenon was observed in a game reserve in South Africa during the 1990s. Young male elephants began acting overly aggressive towards one another and mutilated and killed more than 50 rhinoceroses on the property.
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Welcome to Your Deathbed
I think it's one of humanity's greatest fears -- dying with nobody giving a damn. But, judging by the careless way some of you treat your most important relationships, you could be facing your final days without your loved ones at your side.
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Do The Right Thing
For decades I?ve ended each hour of the Dr . Laura program with a simple directive. After taking many-a-call from people who have made poor choices and messes of their lives, I close the hour out by saying, ?Now, go do the RIGHT thing!?
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How to Find Your Purpose in Life
I?m going to talk today about a topic I just love -- how to figure out what to do with your life. And it?s an area I know something about...
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Making Peace With Your Past
We all have pain in our past. It may have originated in your childhood home, or maybe it?s something you inflicted on yourself with bad decision making.
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Raising Kids with Character
Do you want your child to become a person of good character? To treat others with kindness and sensitivity? To live a life of integrity?
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Overcoming Life's Challenges
Something happens to human beings on an emotional level when we experience a lot of miserable defeats. You can start to feel stuck in a situation that you?re not able to change...
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The Problem With Mama's Boys
What do you do when the ?other woman? in your marriage is your mother-in-law? Let me tell you, it?s very hard to compete with your husband?s mommy, which is why I say it?s not a good idea to marry a mama?s boy.
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Coping with a Loved One's Suicide
One of the most horrifying things that happened to me as a psychotherapist was when I was helping a particular married couple ...
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The Problem with Perfectionism
There?s a difference between being a perfectionist and being a high achiever. Wanting to be good and even great is healthy. That?s how I like to operate ...
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The Blessings of Feminine Wiles
The Cambridge dictionary defines feminine wiles as: ?ways of persuading someone that trick them into doing something.? That?s an awfully negative way of putting it, especially when the use of feminine wiles produces such positive results for BOTH men and women.
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The ABCs of Successful Students
You know what kinds of parents get an A+ in my book? The ones who encourage their kids to do their best, to live up to their potential, follow their dreams and become adults who find their life?s purpose.
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The Dos and Don'ts of Divorce For Parents
Divorce is devastating to children. There is always damage, even if it seems like they're taking it just fine. If you've made the decision to subdivide your child's world, make sure that their lives have as little drama and as much stability as possible.
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Overcoming Your Negative Self-Image
No matter what social media tries to tell you, being beautful doesn?t make people like you, and being thin doesn?t make you happy.
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Dr. Laura's Sex Therapy - Comfortable Isn't Sexy
Whereas women want to hear ?you?re beautiful and I love you,? men want their women to come on to them. It?s a totally different language, and that?s how they feel wanted.
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Making Life Better By Reframing Your Thoughts
Can you really talk yourself into, or out of, a mood or way of thinking? Most people don?t think so. But, short of a mental illness, the answer is "yes you can."
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What Your Child's Behavior is Telling You
What do babies do when they're tired, hungry or need a diaper change? They cry. Every parent knows that you have to interpret their cries, sometimes through trial and error, to figure out which need they are trying to communicate.
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How Can We Be Happier? - Couples Therapy
Married couples don't grow apart - they stop paying attention, showing affection and caring for each other. I get calls from listeners telling me that their marriages are rocky. But that?s not true. Marriages don?t just turn rocky. Couples throw rocks at their marriage.
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Do You Need Therapy? (Dealing With Your Anxiety & Depression)
Many of you call me, wondering if you need professional help for your stress and anxiety, and my answer is frequently, ?no.? Why would I say that it's usually not necessary to talk to a therapist?
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How to Teach Your Daughter to Avoid Stupid Mistakes
In 1994, after more than a decade of trying to help my female callers and private clients unravel the mistakes they were making, I wrote my first bestseller, ?The 10 Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives.? ...
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The Importance of Discipline vs. Punishment
In my very first Deep Dive episode, I talked about how our society is being torn apart, largely thanks to parents failing at their jobs. If you don't raise your children to be people of character who are respectful of others, accountable for their actions and able to function in a world full of rules and expectations, you're hurting them and contributing to the deterioration of our society.
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4 More Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Get Married
People get engaged and it's just sooooo romantic. Then they get married and ask themselves ? what the hell just happened? Because, too often, they didn't spend 2 years getting to know each other. Or they turned a blind eye to potential problems. Or they didn't even bother to discuss with each other what they really wanted out of life together.
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4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Get Married
Divorce rates would probably plummet if people actually prepared for marriage. You've heard the saying, ?Love is Blind.? Well, love can also make you do some stupid things like IGNORE the negative feedback you're getting about your relationship from friends and family ...
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Taking Care When You're the Caregiver (caregiver burnout)
Many of you are sacrificing a large part of your lives to take care of an ill spouse, child, parent or other loved one. Often caregivers are women who are still raising their own children, and I just don't know how any human can manage all of that. If you are a caretaker, this Deep Dive is for you to help you prevent the stress involved from taking a serious toll on your emotional and physical health.
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Coping with Your Serious Illness (letting yourself be cared for)
Dealing with a serious illness is one of life's most difficult challenges. It's understandable to react with panic, fear and anxiety and even to ask ?why me?? Managing illness or injuries is stressful, and it most certainly will affect your mood and outlook.
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Fighting Fair in Marriage
It's normal to have differences of opinions and even to have heated debates over some of your disagreements. What I think is ideal is being able to let go of the petty, irrelevant nonsense that could lead to a completely unnecessary argument.
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Stupid Things Mothers-In-Law Do
Mother-in-law / daughter-in-law relationships are just about the most major subject I've dealt with over my decades on the radio. When the in-laws and adult children don't get along, it affects everything ? your marriages, your grandkids and the relationship with your own child.
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Stupid Things Daughters-In-Law Do
Ok can we be real here? A mother-in-law who cleans while she's waiting for you to get ready is probably not trying to hurt you ...
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Tips for Parenting Toddlers
I didn't personally experience the terrible twos because my kid didn't give me that particular challenge. I kept waiting! I'd wake up, open one eye and wonder, is today ?THE DAY?? It never came for us, but I did see it all around me...
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The Family That Prays Together Stays Together
A quick internet search reveals all kinds of research showing a link between being religious and being happy. And it makes sense when you think about it - - prayer is a kind of meditation.
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The Problem with Parent / Child Role Reversals
I do this podcast, my SiriusXM radio program and I write my books MOSTLY in the hopes of reaching people who are thinking of having kids so they will get themselves and their relationships in a happy and functional place BEFORE the babies come. It's hard to flourish as an adult when you've been raised with a lot of disfunction.
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Deep Dive Classic: The Inheritance Wars
One of the most upsetting types of calls I get on my program are those about inheritance. There are two schools of thought, and in my opinion they're both right.
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Having a Full Life with an Empty Nest
Once you're old enough to have raised kids into young adulthood, you've likely racked up as many years as you have left. But that doesn't mean life is over! On the contrary. You're now entering a new chapter. One that YOU get to write.
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From Sad Stepchild to Happy Adult
Children in stepfamily situations experience real and significant challenges that can haunt them into adulthood.
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Dr. Laura LIVE at SiriusXM Los Angeles Studios - March 8, 2024
Download my Dr. Laura LIVE show. You'll hear me answer questions from Family members attending in person! Of course, fan-favorite Lily joins me too! We love doing our light check together on stage.
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Tackling Common Parenting Challenges
Parenting is a BIG job. And doing it well requires effort and some basic knowledge of how kids' minds work and develop over time. It also takes confidence on the part of the parent, a little common sense and a compassionate approach.
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Grieving a Loss
I can't relate to every type of situation I deal with on the Dr. Laura Program, but, when it comes to the topic of grief ? I understand.
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When Is It Time To Walk Away?
One of the more typical calls I get is that of cutting someone out of your life ... walking away.
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When Kids Lie
Pamela was a new listener to the Dr. Laura program when she called me about getting a backbone and doing a better job at parenting.
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Be Sweet to Your Sweetie
When it comes to marriage, love is not enough ... When it comes to marriage, love is NOT all you need. It?s the efort that makes the diference between being married and being in a LOVING marriage.
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The Downside of Shacking Up
Today's women are doling out sex and the comforts of a wife without the commitment. It's called shacking up, and it's not good for either gender, but especially for women.
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Taking Personal Responsibility
This week's Deep Dive is all about taking personal responsibility. Admitting your mistakes or wrongdoing is important to the development of your character.
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Talking to Your Teen About Sex
Adolescents are going to be stupid - there's just no getting around it! One stupid thing they may be thinking of doing is having sex. It's your job to help them understand why they shouldn't!
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Building Better Habits
Most people have things they'd like to change about themselves. Habits are behaviours that we do with little or no thought, and they're so ingrained that it can feel strange not to do them.
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How to be Happier
If you've ever wondered about the secrets to being happier, this Deep Dive episode is for you! Believe it or not, a lot of how happy you are is in your control.
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