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Episode 197: Fellowship in Failure with Dr. Akua Boateng

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.75K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Kate incorporates some positive self-talk into her day-to-day and Doree begins collecting digital library cards. Then, Dr. Akua K. Boateng, a licensed psychotherapist, discusses how to identify when to set boundaries, what it’s like to be broken up with as a therapist, and how to get started in therapy.



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

0:17.5

I am Kate Spencer and I am Dorya Schafferier and we are not experts.

0:24.3

No, but we are too frantic to talk a lot about serums.

0:29.1

We just want to remind you that our website where we linked everything we mentioned on the show is Forever 35 Podcasts.com.

0:36.1

You can find us on Twitter at Forever 35 Podcasts and on Facebook where we have a Facebook group in the password to serums.

0:44.1

You really went through that.

0:48.1

I'm forever haunted by the person who told us that our intro was too long and they were annoyed about it.

0:55.1

I literally am forever haunted by that one message.

0:58.1

I don't even remember that.

1:00.1

This is how you and I are different.

1:02.1

You let things roll off your back and I absorb things like a spun.

1:09.1

I think that's a thing that can be taught, not to get us totally off track, but I feel like I used to hold on to criticism or anything like that for a long time.

1:21.1

Maybe it's just because now I have more going on in my brain, but I feel like I don't have the brain space for it.

1:28.1

It just goes in and out.

1:29.1

That's not to say it all goes in and out, but I would say a lot of it does.

1:33.1

I'm impressed. It is not something I have tried.

1:37.1

I still think about the woman who hated my book so, so, so much that she wrote me a scathing email.

1:45.1

Sometimes I think about Googling her to make sure she's okay.

1:48.1

I mean, I still remember her because you sent me that email.

1:51.1

I do, you know what though?

1:53.1

I do occasionally think about the woman who emailed excellent adventure.

1:57.1

Six weeks postpart, when I was six weeks postpartum, to tell me that Matt and I were ungrateful and horrible people.

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