Mental Health Q&A: The Comparison Trap, Body Image, Self Esteem, Children vs. No Children and more with Shrink Chicks
Well with Arielle Lorre
Dear Media, Arielle Lorre
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emmalee and Jen, licensed marriage and family therapists and hosts of the Shrink Chicks podcast, join the show today to answer your burning mental health questions. We discuss being child free by choice, dealing with infertility grief, how to stop comparing ourselves to others, how to tap into our most authentic self, how to build self esteem, inner child wrk, body image and beauty standards, tips for binge eating and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the Blondfiles podcast. I'm your host, Aria Laurie, and I'm here to talk all things |
| 0:11.1 | wellness from how to achieve optimal health and wellbeing to the best beauty tips and everything |
| 0:16.8 | in between. No topic is off limits. I know there's so much information out there, so I'm bringing |
| 0:22.0 | on expert guests and sharing my own experiences to help you sift through all the wellness stuff |
| 0:27.1 | without the BS. Enjoy the show. Hi everybody, welcome to the show. So I do a lot of Instagram Q&A's |
| 0:39.2 | whether it's just for Instagram or if it's for topics or questions to answer here on the podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | And I see a lot of the same themes come up. So usually they revolve around being child-free by choice. |
| 0:55.6 | This is something that I've talked about before and I think a lot of women are considering right now. |
| 1:00.4 | So that conversely dealing with the grief or the difficulty of going through infertility, |
| 1:08.5 | trying to get pregnant and not being able to or having a lot of challenges in that area. A lot about |
| 1:15.5 | the comparison trap, a lot about how to have self-esteem, and then of course a lot about like |
| 1:22.8 | diet culture, body image, beauty standards, binge eating. So I wanted to talk to mental health |
| 1:30.4 | professionals and have them weigh in on these topics. And I thought that the shrink chicks would be |
| 1:39.0 | the perfect duo for this because they kind of cut through a lot of psycho babble and they're also |
| 1:45.5 | really fun. So I'm talking to Emily Bearley and Jennifer Chaykin. They're both licensed marriage |
| 1:51.6 | and family therapists. Emily is a marriage and family therapist who specializes in empowering |
| 1:57.1 | and healing women. She started going to therapy when she was 12 years old when her eating disorder |
| 2:02.2 | and self-harm began. And through the next 10 years she had experiences with amazing therapists |
| 2:07.5 | and not so amazing therapists, which is a huge part of why she became a therapist in the first |
| 2:13.5 | place. And she is also an owner and co-founder of the therapy group. And she's very outspoken. |
| 2:19.3 | She loves to talk everything from sex to parenthood. And then Jennifer is also a marriage and |
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