101: How to Help a Friend Who Won’t Stop Venting

Ask Kelly your burning questions in our monthly Vital Life Project membership.In this episode, you'll learn how to support a friend stuck in a victim mindset, how to create agreements in friendships that encourage growth, how to recognize when storytelling keeps you stuck, and how to reframe victim narratives for empowerment.Timestamps:[00:00] Introduction[00:42] Agreements in friendships for growth[01:08] No longer speaking negatively about men[01:31] How agreements shape personal identity[01:54] Breaking the cycle of toxic relationship stories[02:12] Using humour to reframe negative narratives[02:38] The importance of self-awareness in conversation[02:53] How to support a friend in a victim mindset[03:15] Understanding personal communication preferences[03:38] Asking for consent before giving feedback[03:59] Recognizing when someone is stuck in their story[04:21] The emotional attachment to victim narratives[04:42] When validating past experiences is necessary[05:04] How to shift from venting to problem-solving[05:26] Creating a supportive friendship dynamic[05:48] Rejecting the culture of powerlessnessWant to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call hereInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here and join the companion program, Reclaimed, here.

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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.