#151 Every Family Has a Story with Julia Samuel MBE
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Why do families drive us mad? And can we ever aspire to create a family environment that is functional or ‘ideal’?
To help explore these questions I have Julia Samuel MBE on the podcast today to help explain why there is no such thing as ‘the perfect’ family. And actually it’s through pain and even productive fighting that we can have rich, joyful and fulfilling family experiences that emotionally develop us.
Julia Samuel, MBE, is a leading British psychotherapist and the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers 'This Too Shall Pass' and 'Grief Works'. During the last thirty years, she has worked first for the NHS and then in private practice, and she is Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK and a Vice President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She features regularly in the national media and has presented the podcasts A Living Loss and Grief Works.
Today we discuss:
- The concepts of love as medicine
- Why our food is particularly hardwired in our memories
- The universality of our experiences show that we are not alone.
- How we can examine “Inherited family patterns” and prevent trauma
- Why “Emotional connection is a basic human need”
- The importance of self compassion
- How family is the single most important influence on a child’s life and outcomes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.0 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr's Kitchen. Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:49.5 | So we need a narrative to we need all the pieces of the jigsaw that can allow us to make sense |
| 0:56.2 | of highway feeling so that the story we tell ourselves fits with the knowledge that we have, |
| 1:02.9 | and the story we tell ourselves is the person we become. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome to The Doctors Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:13.5 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, |
| 1:25.1 | and I'm a therm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:32.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to |
| 1:38.0 | lead your best life. Why do families drive us mad and can we ever aspire to create a family |
| 1:48.7 | environment that is functional or ideal to help explore these questions on today's podcast. I've got |
| 1:56.0 | Julia Samuel, MBE to help explain why there is no such thing as the perfect family and actually |
| 2:03.2 | it's through pain and even productive fighting that we can have rich joy for and fulfilling |
| 2:09.2 | family experiences that emotionally develop us. Julia Samuel, MBE is a leading British |
| 2:15.3 | psychotherapist and author of The Sunny Times Best Sellers, This Two Shall Pass and grief works. |
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