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Good Inside with Dr. Becky

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Join clinical psychologist and mom of three Dr. Becky Kennedy on her weekly podcast, as she takes on tough parenting questions and delivers actionable guidance—all in short episodes, because we know time is hard to find as a parent. Her breakthrough approach has enabled thousands of people to get more comfortable in discomfort, make repairs after mistakes, and always see the good inside. You'll gain the tools to embody your authority while developing a stronger parent-child connection, helping you become the parent you want to be and helping your child develop the skills necessary for life success.

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#280
Yesterday · 19 min
Stop Trying to Make Your Kid Feel Good About Themselves
Two parents came to Dr. Becky on the same day, both worried about their kid's confidence. One had a kid who wouldn't join the group. The other had a teenager who wouldn't leave the group. Dr. Becky says: maybe confidence isn’t what we think it is. She...
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#279
September 22 · 37 min
Resentment, Joy, and Why Moms Don't Believe They're Allowed Either
Was today a good day? Did my kid seem happy? If the answer is no, even a little, it can feel like the whole day failed, like you failed.Dr. Becky sits down with https://katebowler.com/, a professor at Duke University, to make the case that happiness...
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#278
September 15 · 59 min
Stop Asking "Why" - What an FBI Negotiator Teaches Parents Instead
Chris Voss is a former FBI lead kidnapping negotiator, bestselling author of Never Split The Difference, and founder and CEO of The https://www.blackswanltd.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=goodinsidepodcast; a...
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#277
September 8 · 44 min
How Misty Copeland Turned Instability Into Ballet
Misty Copeland grew up sleeping on a motel floor with five siblings, unsure where the next meal was coming from. At 13, she walked into her first ballet class and felt something she'd never felt before: safe. Dr. Becky talks with the first Black woman...
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#276
September 1 · 45 min
A Different Take on Screen Time - Revisit
We all know too much screen time isn’t good for kids—and our instinct as parents is to protect them from it. But when fear shapes how we manage screens at home, it can quickly turn into shame the moment they pick one up. In today’s world, where...
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#275
August 25 · 45 min
The Second Cutting of the Cord: What Actually Happens When You Go Back to Work
Twelve weeks of parental leave. Then you're back at your desk, wondering why it feels so hard. Today we’re posting an episode from Rattled, our podcast for parents of newborns and babies, because it’s about something everybody experiences. It’s the...
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#274
August 18 · 26 min
When Our Nervous Systems Hijack Our Parenting - Revisit
If you’ve yelled at your kid, you’re not a bad parent. You’re a good parent with an overwhelmed nervous system. In today’s revisit from the Good Inside archives, Dr. Becky breaks down the science behind yelling, snapping, and shutting down. She...
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#273
August 11 · 37 min
Why Am I Always on the Edge?
Your kid hits. Melts down the second you leave the house. Argues about everything, all day, every single day. You've tried the time-outs, the consequences, the calm-down corner. Nothing works. Why are we always at that cliff? Dr. Becky spent two hours...
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#272
August 4 · 45 min
When Depression Doesn't Look Like Depression
What does depression look like? It’s not always… sadness. It can be anger. Irritability. Picking fights. Checking out. Taking risks that don't make sense. It can look, to everyone around you — including you — like a character problem, not a medical...
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#271
July 28 · 38 min
Sex? After Kids? Tell Me More, Esther Perel - Revisit
What happens when two become three, or four, or five? Who is responsible for the needs and wants of a couple when days are filled with playdates, pick-ups, and meal preps? Nights lack the erotic energy that couples need not only to survive but to...
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#270
July 21 · 38 min
Belle Burden: The Burden of Being the "Good Girl"
Belle Burden was, by her own account, the good girl. Quiet, compliant, the kid who wrote her own book report and did her homework on Friday afternoons. Then one night in the second week of the 2020 lockdown, a stranger left a voicemail: your husband...
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#269
July 14 · 35 min
You Are the Technology That Builds Your Child's Brain
There's a lot of noise about what AI will do to jobs. What will it do to one of the most important jobs in the world: parenting? Dr. Dana Suskind is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and neuroscientist who has spent her career on how young brains...
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#268
July 7 · 35 min
Great Dads Are Made, Not Born: The Neuroscience of Fatherhood
When a woman becomes a mother, her brain physically reorganizes around the baby. We've known this for a while. What we didn't know (until recently) is that the same thing happens to dads. https://www.darbysaxbe.com/dadbrain is a neuroscientist and...
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#267
June 30 · 41 min
Are You Pushing Your Kid or Managing Your Fear?
“If I don’t push my kid, they’ll waste their potential.” A lot of us believe this. But is it true? Myleik Teele joins Dr. Becky to work through a question that haunts every ambitious parent. What unfolds is an honest look at whose anxiety is actually...
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#266
June 23 · 40 min
Never Off Duty: Perfectionism and Motherhood
Dr. Cassidy Freitas grew up watching her mom — a Hispanic judge who fought her way into white male spaces with no margin for error — come home carrying that same no-error version of herself. Her dad pushed straight A's as the path to financial safety....
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#265
June 16 · 39 min
Stop Trying to Make Your Kids Creative
Parents are being sold creativity like it's a subscription box. Workshops, kits, frameworks, scripts: the message being that your kid needs more imagination and it's your job to install it. Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Don't Call...
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#264
June 9 · 35 min
Two Parenting Styles, One Family, and Conflicting Boundaries - Revisit
You and your partner love your kids. So why does it sometimes feel like you're parenting in completely different worlds? In this listener-favorite episode from the Good Inside archives, Dr. Becky talks with a mom named Carmella who feels stuck between...
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#263
June 2 · 40 min
What AI Could Be Doing to Our Kids
AI is getting better at sounding human. Better at conversation. Better at reassurance. Better at knowing exactly what we want to hear. So what happens when our kids start building relationships with machines designed to remove friction? In this...
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#262
May 26 · 41 min
Why Some Couples Have Better Sex After Kids
After kids, a lot of couples assume intimacy is supposed to disappear. You’re exhausted, touched-out, overwhelmed by logistics, carrying invisible mental load — and somewhere along the way, sex can start to feel complicated, distant, or impossible to...
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May 23 · 11 min
EMERGENCY Squishy Drop
Dr. Becky recently had a run-in with a ... dubious ... purveyor of NeeDohs, the outrageously popular, notoriously hard-to-find squishy toys. And it made her think twice about why this craze has taken over our homes in the first place. So she did what...
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