From the Vault | Anna Mathur on how to overcome People Pleasing
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
One thing about interviewing psychotherapists is how tempting it can be to open up about the things that I am personally struggling with, or have struggled with. It’s not something I intended to do but in navigating Anna Mathur’s life lessons we stumbled upon the territory of people pleasing and, well, that was it.
Both of us have found ourselves crippled by the effects of people pleasing and these have shown up in Anna’s life in ways that have had a huge impact.
I always open the show by asking my guests what their relationship with risk is like and it’s interesting that a big risk for Anna, and me, was to put ourselves first.
If you’re afflicted with the disease to please then this episode is definitely for you.
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| 0:55.3 | swampy, infuriating times and how they shaped them, all from a comfortable distance that's |
| 1:01.3 | afforded them the time to take the positive out of what might have seemed nothing but negative at the time. |
| 1:07.0 | Because whether it's risks, excuses, obstacles, opportunities both missed and taken, successes, regrets, curveballs, weaknesses, strengths |
| 1:15.8 | and perhaps the hardest lesson of all being wrong. |
| 1:19.3 | They are the reason they are the person they are today, the person sitting in front of me on this episode of the Emma Gunn show. |
| 1:30.0 | My guest today is Anna Martha, the psychotherapist and best-selling author who has taken her knowledge and made it accessible to many outside the therapy room to help them access mental health advice. |
| 1:41.0 | With nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram, she has become one of the |
| 1:44.6 | most trusted voices talking about mental health, motherhood, and more on the platform. |
| 1:50.0 | Anna was born in Bromsgrove and studied Social Psychology at Loughbury University before earning a certificate |
| 1:55.2 | in psychotherapy in counselling and then an MA in Psychotherapy and Counseling. |
| 1:59.9 | She has worked consistently as a counsellor and psychotherapist and now director of Anna Martha Psychology is also the author of three Sunday Times best-selling books. |
| 2:08.0 | Her podcast The Therapy Edit is described as Pep Talks Pact with Ground words for motherhood feelings and tackles |
| 2:13.8 | everything from how to accept help from others and how to deal with resentment. |
| 2:17.5 | Anna runs a series of courses via her website covering subjects including anxiety |
| 2:21.8 | people pleasing, self-worth, new moms and more. |
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