late 1980s
Mel Robbins says women were not included in medical research until the late 1980s.
“it's very frustrating to know that women were not even involved in, uh, medical research until the late 80s.”
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Mel Robbins
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Mel Robbins says she did not start in the podcast business until she was 54.
“I did not even get started in the podcast business until I was fifty four years old.”
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Mel Robbins describes a biological chain of sensation, perception, feeling, thought and action that she says happens in a nanosecond.
“so sensation, perception, then feeling, then thought, then action. That is the biological chain of events that happens in a nanosecond.”
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Mel Robbins says she has used talk therapy, guided MDMA therapy with her husband, EMDR and behavioural activation therapy.
“by doing traditional talk therapy, guided MDMA therapy with my husband, um, EMDR, uh, all of the behavioral activation therapy”
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Mel Robbins credits her daughter with teaching her the 'let them' theory.
“the let them theory is this simple theory that I credit my daughter with teaching me”
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Mel Robbins says she learned the 'let them' idea during her son's junior prom, when her daughter told her to let him make his own dinner plans.
“it was our son's, um, junior prom, so he's a eleventh grader in the states.”
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Mel Robbins says her husband Chris began his men's retreat work after his restaurant business failed.
“he came out of his uh, restaurant business, a broken human, uh, because the venture did not succeed.”
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Mel Robbins says her husband Chris runs two or three men's retreats a year, and next year's registration sold out in 24 hours.
“He just does two or three retreats a year. He just opened up next year's registration and sold it out in twenty four hours.”
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Mel Robbins says gym visits rise on the first of a month partly because the date is a 'temporal landmark' that marks a before and an after.
“The reason why there are more people that go to a gym on the 1st of a month is not only because of the, uh, incentive with pricing, but it's because it's a temporal landmark,”
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Mel Robbins argues that jealousy reflects a genuine desire a person believes they cannot have.
“jealousy is just blocked desire. You can't feel jealous of somebody unless you authentically want something for real that you think that they have.”
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Mel Robbins says she was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, around age 47, after her son was evaluated.
“I was diagnosed the way that most women that are adults are diagnosed, and it goes a little something like this.”
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Mel Robbins says her son Oakley's inability to read went unnoticed until fourth grade because he overcompensated by being very verbal in class.
“We didn't find out that he couldn't read, Steven, until he was in the fourth grade.”
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Mel Robbins says the most common consequence of undiagnosed ADHD is anxiety.
“If you don't get properly tested and you don't address it, do you know what? The number one thing that happens? You develop anxiety.”
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Mel Robbins compares the prefrontal cortex to an orchestra conductor that lowers some signals and amplifies others, and says this switching works differently in ADHD.
“this kind of part of your brain really has the job of almost being like a conductor of an orchestra.”
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Mel Robbins says she studied at Baker Library at Dartmouth College and used those sessions to illustrate how ADHD disrupted her focus.
“I would be with my books, and I would be in the stacks at Baker Library at Dartmouth College, and I'd be there, cause I'm gonna study, right?”
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Mel Robbins says life expectancy now far exceeds women's fertility span, leaving many women 30 to 40 years of life after menopause.
“our life expectancy has way eclipsed the fertility cycle of women. And so we now, for most of us, will have another 30 or 40 years if we take care of ourselves.”
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