From Addicted Teen to Acclaimed Therapist: The Inside Story
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
It's sooo wonderful to be back from our holiday season hiatus!
And, do I have a powerhouse conversation to share with you today...
By the time she got out of high-school, Terri Cole described her liver as being "pickled" by mass amounts of black-out inducing alcohol.
But it would be a few more years until a brief conversation at an AA meeting would send her reeling, and become the catalyst for her to stop drinking and start down a radically different path.
Sober and focused, she'd soon build a career as a super-agent and confidant to the world's biggest super-models, but the nature of the business and the potential it had to destroy her clients led her to take a giant step further.
She went back to school to become a therapist, then returned to the very same celebs whose careers she'd been making, to help them understand how to better embrace a more balanced, sane and holistic approach to a career all too often defined by excess and extremes.
Over the last 20 years, she's built a powerhouse practice and reputation not just in the celebrity community, but as a respected and deeply intuitive therapist with game-changing and provocative insights on love and personal relationships.
Join us as we trace her remarkable and raw journey. This is a conversation where you'll want to have a pen and paper handy, especially in the later parts of the conversation when Terri begins dropping insights and strategies that just might save or deepen your most precious relationships. You may also want to check out Terri's guided meditations to help get your own practice started.
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| 0:00.0 | I said, why are you here? I had no idea what the etiquette was. I just was trying to be |
| 0:09.6 | polite. And she said, I killed a six year old boy in a drunk driving accident. And I was |
| 0:17.6 | like, okay, I didn't know what to say. I had never, I didn't expect her to say that obviously. |
| 0:26.6 | And it struck me so hard. And I said, I'm so sorry. And she said, you know what? I have to live |
| 0:32.7 | every day of my life knowing that I literally broke a mother's heart, you know. |
| 0:48.1 | So today's conversation didn't exactly go as planned. My guest is Terry Cole. She's a therapist |
| 0:55.2 | and coached to a lot of big names celebrities. And she's been doing that for the better part of |
| 0:59.4 | 20 years. And originally I'd asked her to join me because of something that happened. A question |
| 1:05.3 | that arose about partners dealing with one person growing while the other person wasn't. And she had |
| 1:11.9 | some really powerful insights on that. And we do in fact get to that. And what she has to say, |
| 1:16.6 | I think, is really important to hear. But long before we got there, we kind of start to explore her |
| 1:22.3 | personal story. And we went to a place that I had no idea we were going to go. It started |
| 1:30.0 | in a pretty dark place to be honest. But the revelations, the experiences she shared, the |
| 1:36.9 | rawness, the her honesty was really pretty extraordinary. And it's a conversation that I certainly |
| 1:44.1 | learned a ton from. And I'm really excited to share with you guys. I'm Jonathan Fields. This is |
| 1:50.1 | Good Life Project. |
| 2:20.2 | I was a big, always a big drinker from a big drinking family. I was literally allowed to drink |
| 2:45.4 | at my house at the age of 16. Who does that? Let's just set everyone up to become alcoholics, |
| 2:50.1 | shall we? So by the time I was in college, I had done more than my share of drinking. I feel like |
| 2:56.9 | my liver was kind of pickled already. And I had an incident, a small incident with my long-term |
| 3:01.8 | college boyfriend where we were out drinking. And he was more of a situational alcoholic, |
| 3:06.4 | because as soon as college was over, he was no longer an alcoholic, right? Which happens a lot. |
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