325: The 82 Percent: Bonus Conversation with Jessica Fern
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this special bonus episode, Whit Missildine interviews Jessica Fern. Jessica Fern is a renowned psychotherapist, trauma and relationship expert, and the author of two books: Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non-Monogamy, and Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships. In her international private practice, Jessica works with individuals, couples, and people in multiple-partner relationships who no longer want to be limited by their reactive patterns, cultural conditioning, insecure attachment styles, and past traumas, helping them to embody new possibilities in life and love.
To find out more about Jessica and her work, you visit her website jessicafern.com or find her on Instagram @jessicafern411.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual themes, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.2 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Hi listeners today as part of our mini series the 82% modern stories of love and family. |
| 0:23.4 | We bring you an in-depth interview with Jessica Fern, a renowned psychotherapist, trauma and relationship |
| 0:29.3 | expert, and author. |
| 0:30.9 | In this conversation we discuss attachment styles, consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, the deep challenges and big |
| 0:37.0 | awakenings that come from opening up relationships, and Jessica's own journey as a therapist and mother when she and her husband open up their relationship to form the family they have today. |
| 0:47.0 | So here it is, my conversation with Jessica Fern. |
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