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

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 32 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.
0:13.1	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.1	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.3	And we are so excited to welcome New York Times bestselling author Christy Tate to this episode.
0:21.2	Christy is the author of The New Book, Group,
0:23.8	How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life.
0:27.6	The book is described as the memoir of a guarded, overachieving, self-lacerating young lawyer
0:34.0	who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of
0:39.1	six complete strangers, her psychotherapy group, and in turn finds human connection and herself.
0:46.3	Christy, thanks so much for joining us.
0:48.7	Thank you so much for having me.
0:50.6	Tell us how this book came about.
0:53.2	Sure.
0:53.9	So I've been in therapy for many years and I still go, actually.
0:58.3	And I had started to try writing and I found that I really loved it.
1:03.7	And I tried my hand out a couple of novels that were really, really not good.
1:08.3	And after I talked about one of them in my group, somebody said something that
1:14.2	just triggered me. They said, why don't you just tell the true story? Instead of writing these characters
1:21.1	that are lonely lawyers that have these relationships with their therapists, it became clear that the
1:27.4	real story was trying to come out
1:30.9	in my writing and I was resisting. I didn't think I was important enough of a person to write a
1:36.0	memoir. And then I finally just decided, well, let's just see what the true story is and let me see
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