In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes

You had a good time. Nothing anybody said upset you. And then you came home and you were completely flattened by it.

This one is about where that energy went, and you didn't imagine it. There's a good chance you were doing a second job the whole time you were at that social event, and nobody there could see you doing it. That probably includes you.

I go through ...

Think about the last person who became a close friend of yours. For most people, that friendship started a very long time ago.

You haven't lost the skill of making friends, and there's nothing wrong with how you come across. You've left behind the places that used to make friendships for you, and nobody told you that's what those places were for.

I explain why h...

You're at dinner, someone's telling you something, and you pick up your phone for just a second. They stop talking, and when they start again, they tell you a shorter version.

Almost everybody does this, because it's become so normal that nobody notices. But the research shows it does far more harm than most people realize, and it can affect how the people you love fee...

You're lying in bed scrolling through your phone, you see a photo of someone you went to school with, and suddenly you feel worse about your own life.

That feeling doesn't mean anything's wrong with you. You're comparing everything you know about your own life with one photo somebody chose to share, and research shows most of us guess wrong about how happy other people...

You sit down after dinner, the phone is in your hand before you've decided anything, and an hour later you get up feeling worse. That isn't a willpower problem. You've been up against something built to be easier than anything else in the house, while every alternative you tried was sitting in a cupboard. I explain why the things you've tried instead haven't lasted, and I giv...