Christie Tate: ...that a group of strangers would help me heal from shame

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are familiar with the idea of one on one therapy, but have you ever considered the possibility of doing it with a group?

On this episode, we're joined by New York Times bestselling author Christie Tate, author of the new book, Group: How One Therapist and A Circle of Strangers Saved My Life.

The book is described as “the memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—her psychotherapy group—and in turn finds human connection, and herself.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.3	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.4	And we are so excited to welcome New York Times best-selling author Christy Tate to this episode.
0:21.4	Christy is the author of The New Book, Group, How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers
0:26.6	Saved My Life.
0:27.8	The book is described as the memoir of a guarded, overachieving, self-lacerating young lawyer
0:34.2	who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of
0:39.4	six complete strangers, her psychotherapy group, and in turn, finds human connection and herself.
0:46.5	Christy, thanks so much for joining us.
0:49.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:50.8	Tell us how this book came about.
0:53.4	Sure.
0:57.7	So I've been in therapy for many years and I still go,
1:04.8	actually, and I had started to try writing and I found that I really loved it. And I tried my hand out a couple of novels that were really, really not good. And after I talked about one of them in my group, somebody said something
1:14.2	that just triggered me. They said, why don't you just tell the true story? Instead of writing
1:20.6	these characters that are lonely lawyers that have these relationships with their therapists, it
1:26.3	became clear that the real story was trying to come out
1:31.2	in my writing and I was resisting. I didn't think I was important enough of a person to write a
1:36.2	memoir. And then I finally just decided, well, let's just see what the true story is and let me see
1:41.5	if I can do it. And then it kind of went from there.
1:49.1	You yourself were very successful. So most people wouldn't have thought that you were struggling to the extent that you were like is the case with so many people who have some form of
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