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Barry Michaels has had a thriving therapy practice in Los Angeles for many years.

And one of his clients is Drew Barrymore, who joins us now.

Hi, Drew.

Great to see you as always.

I know you're taping today there in New York.

So thanks for making time for us.

You've called Barry one of your greatest influences.

Talk about how he has impacted your life and what this moment means.

It's so interesting to listen to everything you're saying.

I think that

Barry has given that directive and that inertia to certainly me as far as not hiding,

to embrace what you are going through as not a victim,

to look at your choices and see how they are affecting you.

And Barry has never been one to tell me at least what I should do

or when I should do it or how I should do it or who to do it with.

It's in his practice, and I think the succinct way that he explains the tools in this book.

I have studied certain tools with him for over 15 years.

And the way he writes them in this book is

so light bulb because the tools are so incredible and

so effective and I am so glad that he did not hold himself back

or close himself off as he would do in his home growing up

because that's exactly what he has done for all of his patients certainly me

I should stay in my own lane and speak for myself

and I think with this book

and certainly what I've experienced over the last three years since his diagnosis speaking to him on a weekly basis

is that he is opening more.

And thanks to this book, as you so perfectly put it,

we have this evidence of a choice that we can make when something comes in our path that is either

detrimental and the end or the beginning of something.

And so it's all in keeping with the Barry I know.

Well, I know you went through a difficult divorce in 2016, I think it was.

And do you believe, as Barry does, that challenges, crisis, difficulties show up to reveal a greater truth?

Did you find that?

Or was he helpful in allowing you to excavate that for yourself?

i think it's the perfect balance of accountability he helped me see what my choices

and patterns were because if something keeps presenting itself over and over what is your part in this yeah and

also that if this is continuing to present itself

and it is not of your doing it is there because you have not mastered it yet.

Yeah.

And there is tools and a roadmap to get there.

And it is looking at yourself and doing this very focused work that has a tangible guidance to it.

And I have hit rock bottom

the hardest in my life at that point

and i thought i had hit rock bottom at 13

and this was so much bigger than

that i know you stopped working with drew for a while

because of her drinking during that time and as as a therapist was

that difficult for you as a decision oh yeah yeah yeah it's always

i mean especially because i love drew i it was hard to say i'm not going to work I can't do this.

Yeah.

But I just felt like, I honestly, I felt like I owed it to her and to myself.

Like we just weren't making progress.

And I knew we wouldn't until she stopped.

Yeah.

And you took that seriously.

It was the best thing that could have happened to me.

I've never respected a human being more because it demonstrated something for me that I could not understand,

which is to have a level of self -respect to know you're not getting somewhere with someone

or anywhere and you will not until things change.

And it taught me a boundary.

that I just never knew growing up.

My life was boundaryless.

My job was boundaryless.

My behavior was boundaryless.

And it also, in not having parents or siblings,

for me, I think it is what I would think of as a familial way to care about someone,

which is I recognize this in you and I no longer will stand around and watch it.

Yeah.

So what have you learned watching

Barry move through this devastating illness?

I mean, as I was open to this conversation, is there anything worse we can hear than you're going to lose yourself?

Well, thanks to Barry, being on this journey with him, reading his book, speaking to him about it,

It gave me confidence and courage in our sessions to ask how he's doing.

And through being with him in the last few years,

he has helped me understand that we can make peace with things and our greatest devastations can become our greatest strengths.

We lack in control in this world and in this life.

And it just scares us into paralysis.

Yeah.

And this is the opposite of that.

So, I have to say, it's incredible what you've been able to actually learn from each other, right?

Yeah.

So, thank you, Drew Barrymore.

Thank you so much for joining us.

I know you've got to get back to work.

Thank you for having me always, anytime, anywhere.

Goodbye.

I love you, Barry.

Thank you so much.

Bye, Drew.

Bye.

So as we were speaking earlier, you're still seeing patients.

How has this journey changed you as a therapist?

You know, I'm much more open than I've ever been before, not just with my patients, but with my friends, really with everybody.

I think it's also strangely

And maybe paradoxically, it's made me trust my instincts more,

possibly because I can't really rely on my intellect as faithfully as I used to.

So in the absence of that,

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I have to sort of close my eyes and listen and hear what's coming up inside of me and say that.

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Isn't that a good thing?

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It's a great thing, actually.

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I mean, I don't always trust that something's going to come up.

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You know, sometimes I'm just sitting there waiting, like, what's going to happen here?

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But, you know, more often than not, something does come up.

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And I love those insights.

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They're much better than the ones that I come up with.

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How has it changed the way you see every day?

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Has it changed the way you look at life?

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You know, it's a really good question.

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I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure it's changed the way I look at life.

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And I appreciate life so much more than I used to.

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Okay, so it's changed the way you appreciate life.

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Yes, yes.

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It just feels so precious to me, so much more so than it used to.

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And the diagnosis is what?

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That says you have how many years before you?

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Five to seven.

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And you're the third.

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Yeah, although that's Lewy buddy dementia.

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Mixed dementia, I think, might be shorter than that.

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I'm not sure.

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Sure.

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Honestly, I try not to look at that.

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Not to think about it.

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Yeah.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Drew Barrymore on Finding Purpose When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Barry, drew, changed. Deze video bevat 127 zinnen en 1213 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:50. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 137 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
diagnosis zelfstandig naamwoord	/daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/	diagnose
therapist zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈθɛɹəpɪst/	therapeut, therapeute
dementia zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɪˈmɛnʃə/	dementie
helpful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/	behulpzaam
reveal werkwoord	/ɹɪˈviːl/	onthullen, zich ontpoppen
illness zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɪl.nəs/	ziekte, aandoening
buddy	/ˈbʌdi/	maat, maatje
divorce zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɪˈvɔːs/	echtscheiding
absence zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈæb.s(ə)n̩s/	afwezigheid, verstek
difficulty zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɪfɪkəlti/	moeilijkheid
courage zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/	moed, dapperheid
goodbye	/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/	tot ziens, tot weerziens
rely werkwoord	/ɹɪˈlaɪ/	rekenen op
demonstrate werkwoord	/ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/	demonstreren
anytime bijwoord		altijd, wanneer dan ook

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
grow up werkwoord	opgroeien
come up with werkwoord	bedenken, verzinnen

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Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

It's so interesting to listen to everything you're saying.
Did you find that?
How has this journey changed you as a therapist?
Has it changed the way you look at life?
That says you have how many years before you?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 25 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, thrive /θɹajv/, faithfully /ˈfeɪθfəli/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: dementia /dɪˈmɛnʃə/, devastation /ˌdɛ.vəˈsteɪ.ʃən/, inertia /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, accountability /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/, detrimental /ˌdɛtɹɪˈmɛntəl/, devastation /ˌdɛ.vəˈsteɪ.ʃən/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: courage /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, thrive /θɹajv/, directive /daɪˈɹɛk.tɪv/, bulb /ˈbʌlb/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: absence /ˈæb.s(ə)n̩s/, tangible /ˈtæn.d͡ʒə.bəl/, paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: diagnosis /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/, guidance /ˈɡaɪdəns/, goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/

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