Your 'Inner Child' Runs Your Life. Here's How To Spot It and Take Back the Wheel. | Dr. Galit Atlas
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Your 'Inner Child' Runs Your Life. Here's How To Spot It and Take Back the Wheel. | Dr. Galit Atlas

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202659 min

Six archetypes: Which one are you? Plus, a simple question to help you distinguish real, current fears from old, outdated ones. Dr. Galit Atlas is an internationally renowned psychoanalyst and leader in relational psychoanalysis. She teaches at NYU and Columbia University and lectures internationally on sexuality, desire, and emotional inheritance. Her latest book is Come Closer. You can also read her essays on Substack, Wild Analysis with Dr. Galit Atlas. In this episode we talk about: The six childhood archetypes that quietly run your adult relationships Why the version of you that felt too...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. I have been thinking a lot and writing a lot in my never ending next book project about what I was like as a child, super anxious, often deeply ashamed, and how that impacts who I am now. And I as a consequence of doing all this thinking and writing was very intrigued

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when my staff recommended that we bring on the show a woman named Dr. Galit Atlas, who is a psychoanalyst and the author of a new book called Come Closer, in which she argues that the key to your adult relationships is the child you once were. So without further ado, let's say a big hearty 10% happier hello to Dr. Galit Atlas.

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Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here. I have to say that over and over on this show,

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