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Are You Getting Better or Getting Bitter?

2 de novembro de 2026 · 1 h 2 min

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Are you getting better, or are you getting bitter? Everyone has opinions about your marriage, your choices, and your life, and how you handle those voices affects your mental health, your relationships, and where your life goes from here.


A week after the book launch, we're talking about how to protect your spirit in a world that runs on criticism. Carl explains why what you rehearse is what you become, and why you may need to restart the algorithm of your life. Laura answers a question we get all the time: how has she stayed so free of bitterness after everything? Her answer starts with a choice she made early on, and it may not be the one you'd expect.


Then we take listener questions about feeling judged by people who walked away, and about the criticism that comes when you try to make a change. We talk about the friends who couldn't support our decisions, what a tenderhearted response looks like, and why the story of your marriage belongs to two people.


Stay for Laura's apocalypse algorithm, Carl's weekly meeting with the bitter version of himself, "bitterness is often grief that never got permission to grieve," and the difference between wanting approval and needing it.


If you've been holding back on something because of what other people might say, this one is for you.


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