Couch Talks: Co-Worker Weight Comments & Balancing Being Human & A Therapist
You Need Therapy
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2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Couch Talks is the special bonus Q&A episode of You Need Therapy that comes out every Wednesday where Kat (@kat.defatta) answers questions that listeners e-mail to kathryn@youneedtherapypodcast.com. This week Kat talks about how to handle comments abut your body from your boss. Then Kat talks about how therapists are humans too and how to balance your own struggles while showing up for clients.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | Hi guys and welcome back to another new episode of Unith Therapy podcast. My name is Kat, |
| 0:20.2 | and you are listening to Couch Talks. So Couch Talks |
| 0:23.6 | is the special episode that we put out on Wednesdays where I answer questions that you guys send |
| 0:29.1 | into me at catherine at Unitherepepodcast.com. So today I answer questions from you guys. I usually do |
| 0:36.3 | too. I'm going to do that today. |
| 0:38.0 | If you have a question, send it in. |
| 0:40.1 | Now, before we get started, I want to remind you guys, most of you know the drill by now, |
| 0:43.9 | but this is not therapy and I am not being your therapist via the podcast. |
| 0:48.5 | This is just me walking through some questions that you guys send in and doing my best |
| 0:53.0 | to help you guys think about questions that |
| 0:55.8 | might help you make the best decision for you out there in the world. All right. So now remember, |
| 1:01.4 | we keep these anonymous so I don't say anybody's names. I will read the questions and then I am |
| 1:06.6 | going to talk about it. So let's jump into the first one. So hi, cat. I started a new job within the last year. So I have a new boss with whom I don't have a super great connection with yet due to working virtually for majority of the time. I've always been fairly confident with my body and never suffered from any form of eating disorder. But when I returned to work in person, my boss started making constant comments about my body type. Every time I see my boss, |
| 1:28.0 | she says things like, oh my goodness, one day I'll have a body like you. Or, oh, I used to be thin |
| 1:33.1 | like that when I was young, but just wait till you turn 30. In parentheses, I already am. Or, and most |
| 1:39.0 | uncomfortable of all, oh, no wonder you have a body like that. Just look at you eating nothing for |
| 1:44.0 | lunch. Meanwhile, I have eaten a full lunch and I always do. There's been tons of oh no wonder you have a body like that just look at you eating nothing for lunch meanwhile i have |
| 1:45.7 | eaten a full lunch and i always do there's been tons more comments like that including bringing |
| 1:50.1 | baked goods to the office and being told oh you take your little size two body and those baked goods |
| 1:54.8 | out of here i'm on a diet how do i respond to these comments and tell her it makes me uncomfortable |
| 1:59.6 | when she's my boss i I don't know how to |
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