Re-Air: Your Parenting Wakeup Call | Dr. Carla Naumburg

**Mayim Bialik** (0:04)
Hi, I'm Mayim Bialik.

**Jonathan Cohen** (0:05)
And I'm Jonathan Cohen.

**Mayim Bialik** (0:06)
And welcome to our Breakdown. Today, in honor of International Self Care Day, we're going to revisit a super informative, fun and very practical episode which will tell you so much about self care. It's with a personal friend of mine, Dr. Carla Naumburg. Carla wrote a variety of books, but we talk about her book, You Are Not a Shitty Parent, which clarifies what it means to have self compassion through the parenting process, ways to understand the role of self care in not only how we deal with our children, but how we deal with ourselves and the entire world.

**Jonathan Cohen** (0:41)
Carla helps us break down the evolution in our parenting methods from generation to generation, the importance of honesty when sharing parenting struggles and not comparing yourself to other parents. She also talks about how meditation impacts parenting skills and the dark side of the mommy blogging.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:00)
Carla and I actually talk about how we met, which was through the dark side of mommy blogging. She wrote an article criticizing the way that I parented, and we actually became unlikely adversaries and then friends and writers. So we're so excited to look back at our episode with Dr. Naumburg. Also check us out on Substack for content you cannot get anywhere else. What better way to celebrate self care than by going to our Substack page, bialikbreakdown.substack.com, and now enjoy our episode with Dr. Naumburg.

**Carla Naumburg** (1:30)
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**SPEAKER_4** (1:33)
Easy. Sold my car on Carvana.

**Carla Naumburg** (1:35)
Amazing offer.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:36)
Really?

**Carla Naumburg** (1:37)
I hit 200 on the scratcher.

**Jonathan Cohen** (1:38)
Did the scratcher come to your house and hand you a check?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:41)
No. How many scratchers did you hit to get that? I hit a button on carvana.com once.

**Carla Naumburg** (1:46)
Okay, that's fair.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:47)
It's like the lottery except you always win.
Not like the lottery at all actually. Exactly. Inexplicably good. Offers worth bragging about. Sell your car today on Carvana. Pick up Vees May Apply.

**Jonathan Cohen** (2:00)
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**Jonathan Cohen** (3:15)
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**Mayim Bialik** (3:18)
Break it down.

**Carla Naumburg** (3:20)
I'm so excited to be here. Let's talk about all the things.

**Mayim Bialik** (3:23)
I have told you about Carla Jonathan in many ways over the years. You may not have realized that this is the Carla.

**Jonathan Cohen** (3:31)
You told me that she taught you to meditate.

**Mayim Bialik** (3:33)
Carla is not the person who taught me to meditate. Carla is the person that I went to when I was struggling a lot because Carla has been very, very open in her writing even before her awesome books, which have been very helpful. But Carla and I used to write together at Kveller, which is a Jewish parenting website. And our relationship, I think, is very interesting because it started in a potentially contentious way.
Carla is a very, very, very funny and very thoughtful and very, she can be sarcastic. And she wrote an article that referenced me somewhat playfully, but I wanted to, what are you, what?

**Jonathan Cohen** (4:20)
I want to know the shot that you took.