Brené, Ashley, and Barrett on The Love Prescription, Part 3 of 3

Hi, everyone. I'm Brene Brown, and this is unlocking us. I'm here today with Ashley Barrett. And we're talking about the Gottmans. Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman have written a new book, The The Love Prescription, and it is a short tactical, practical, get your vulnerability on book. And we're gonna talk about our reaction to it, what we learned from those first two podcasts and the book. Stay tuned. I know what's gonna happen, but you know it'll be interesting or weird. Yeah. Avoiding your unfinished home projects because you're not sure where to start? Thumbtack knows homes, so you don't have to. Don't know the difference between matte paint finish and satin, or what that clunking sound from your dryer is? With Thumbtack, you don't have to be a home pro. You just have to hire one. You can hire top rated pros, see price estimates, and read reviews all on the app. Download today. At Criminal, we've made it a tradition every December to dedicate an episode entirely to animals who are really going for it. And Tony, what happened when you pulled over? Nothing out of the ordinary until I saw the cat on the back of the roof behind the luggage carrier. Listen to our fifth annual Animals episode on Criminal wherever you get your podcasts. Alright. We're back. Who wants to start? Let's let the therapist start. Meredith? Okay. Okay. If I could just start, let's just follow Ashley, therapist. Can we call them the doctor Gottmans? I think we can just call them the Gottmans. Yeah. Okay. The Gottmans have this question that they share that they ask, and so let's start there. So what's on your mind and what's on your heart today? Barrett's gonna go first. Probably really navigating we went back to school a lot later than most schools did, and I think we're really navigating middle school. Ugh. So, yeah, I think that's really what's on my heart. And this book too because navigating having a middle school child for two adults is not easy either. No. Mm-mm. No. No. No. No. No. Especially, you know, I often say about parenting a middle schooler. The hardest thing about parenting a middle schooler is the reactivity in parents because immediately, you're the sweaty palm seventh grader that has no place to sit and no friends. Mhmm. And then there's a part of you that desperately needs your kid to not be that person because it's too painful to go back to that. It's dicey. Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. So on my mind is I was just trying to figure out what the new me is at work. Yeah. So I think that's really on my mind a lot. And I'm trying to think about how work does not get in the way of pickleball because I'm missing shots right now, and it's because unlike this summer, I have a lot on my mind. And so, you know, when you're playing …