We Can Do Hard Things

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Come do life with Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle. With more than half a billion plays, We Can Do Hard Things is a hilarious, raw, comforting “support system for braving the everyday.” The Pod Squad goes hard ($56 Million raised in global aid) and stays soft: meet here on Tuesdays to laugh, talk, and cry our way through the pain and magic of being human. Subscribe, Follow, and join our social media community here: https://linktr.ee/wecandohardthingsshow

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Episodes

12. PARENTING: How do we make this thrilling, terrifying roller coaster ride a little bit easier?

1. The 5 things Glennon wishes she’d known during those early days with young kids. 2. Why it’s important to let our kids see us mess up, cry, and lose it every once in a while. 3. How to let go of Expectation Parenting and embrace Treasure Hunt Parenting. 4. On teaching kids the most important lesson: How to disappoint everyone else (including you) before they disappoint themselves. 5. Why if you’re listening to this podcast worried about how you’re parenting, things are likely already okay....

Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 12

11. REDEFINING FAMILY with Craig: Does letting go of what family “should be” help us embrace the family we have?

1. Craig’s first two thoughts the moment Glennon sent him “the text.” 2. How Glennon and Craig told the kids they were divorcing. 3. The big mistake Glennon and Craig agree they made in the early days of blending their family. 4. What Craig says is the most annoying thing about co-parenting with Glennon, and the best thing about co-parenting with Abby. 5. How Craig really feels about Glennon writing their stories.

Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 11

10. OUR BODIES: Why are we at war with them and can we ever make peace?

TW // eating disorders 1. Glennon’s “final frontier”—her attempt to stop controlling her body. 2. The opportunity costs of a lifetime spent obsessing about our size and shape. 3. How we’ve been taught to fixate over every hair, wrinkle, and pound—but have never been taught how our bodies actually work. 4. How to quit conditioning girls to stay small in body, hunger, ambition, and desire. 5. The tyranny of the weigh-in at the doctor’s office—and why BMI is horseshit....

Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 10

9. QUEER FREEDOM: How can we be both held and free?

1. How Abby learned from church as a child to hate herself—and the healing moment she realized that God and religion are not the same. 2. The miraculous letter Glennon received from a reader the day after she came out. 3. Glennon’s response to the statement “I disagree with your lifestyle, but I love you anyway.” 4. When it’s time to either raise hell inside of—or leave—the institutions that require us to deny who we are or what we know.

Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 9

8. SELF CARE: How do we identify our real needs and finally get them met?

1. How to create lives that we don’t need to escape from. 2. Why our resentment toward others is our Secret Self-Care Signal. 3. Why refusing to be selfless is the best way to care for others and the world. 4. How to stop passing down the brutal legacy of martyrdom to our children. 5. Glennon’s life-changing spiritual practice: Habitual Quitting.

Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 8

7. FIGHTING WELL: Is your conflict style making or breaking your relationships?

In this episode, in which Abby joins Glennon and Amanda, discover: 1. How Glennon and Abby realized that each of their recurring Five Fights (about money, food, etc.) are all actually about the exact same thing—and how it all goes back to their childhoods. 2. The guardrails Abby and Glennon built to protect each other when they fight. 3. How to handle a relationship in which one partner runs from conflict (Team Abby), and the other rushes toward conflict (Team Glennon). 4. The one red flag that ...

Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 7

OVERWHELM: Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs?

In the episode discover: 1. How the constant to-do list ticker looping in Amanda's brain makes her feel like a dormant volcano. 2. The job description we've somehow accepted for motherhood—and whether self-abandonment is a job requirement. 3. The way gender expectations even creep into Glennon and Abby's marriage. 4. How to know whether your partner is a co-builder or an assistant. 5. How to make the invisible load of caretaking visible—and potentially bearable....

Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 6

5. ADDICTION: How do we love an addict and how does an addict love herself?

TW // abortion, bulimia, addiction In this episode discover: 1. How Amanda protected their sisterhood from Glennon’s addiction. 2. Which of the 12 steps Glennon refused to take. 3. What it took for Amanda to finally quit the wine. 4. The answer to the Pod Squad’s question about quarantine drinking and how much is too much.

Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 5

4. FUN: What the hell is it and why do we need it?

In this episode — in which Abby confronts my sister and me about our inability to have fun—discover: 1. The one “fun” post that caused more people to unfollow me on social media than any other. 2. Why girls may disassociate early from their ability to access fun. 3. Science’s insistence that when we’re gloomy, rest won’t fix us. We gotta play the blues away. 4. A playlist I created for YOU—if you, like me, need daily help awakening your dormant Fun Self: https://open.spotify.com/user/f50axmsbwkh...

Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3. INFIDELITY: How do we trust—and fully love—again?

In this episode, discover: 1. The messed up way my sister Amanda learned her marriage was over -- and how that sabotaged her healing process. 2. How we often cling to unforgiveness because it’s the last connection we have left. 3. The one question not to ask someone who is recovering from infidelity and what you can say instead.

May 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2. BOUNDARIES: Are too few (or too many) why we stay stuck?

In this Episode, discover: My quirkiest boundary and how I finally fired Texts as the Boss of Me. Our response to a Pod Squad listener’s question about creating and holding boundaries with her in-laws. How my aversion to moderation has led me from too few boundaries to way too many.

May 18, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1. ANXIETY: Is it just love holding its breath?

In this episode discover: 1. Glennon’s description of an anxiety attack. 2. The 3 strategies that help her find calm. 3. The original We Can Do Hard Things anthem, written and performed by Glennon's daughter Tish Melton and produced by Brandi Carlile.

May 11, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 1

We Can Do Hard Things Podcast Premieres Tuesday, May 11th!

Introducing We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle! I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed - WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Here, on WE CAN DO HARD THINGS, my sister, Amanda - my best friend and the person I go to all my hard things -- and I will do the only thi...

Apr 24, 2021•2 min

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