Natasha Page: Self-esteem, midlife transitions & reclaiming confidence
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
This week on Dial Emma, I'm joined by psychotherapist and self-development coach Natasha Page, whose debut book, Believe You're Made for More, will be published on 27th January 2026. We're exploring a dilemma from a listener who feels as though her self-confidence has been quietly eroding over the years. Between caring for teenage children and elderly parents, maintaining relationships and trying to keep everything ticking along, our listener has been left with very little space for herself and her needs. Now, she's about to turn 50 years old and is really struggling with feelings of low self-esteem.
This lack of confidence is something that both Natasha and myself can relate to, particularly when we're also navigating midlife transitions. During our conversation, Natasha provides some incredibly useful insights and practical exercises to help us rebuild self-esteem and foster a healthier relationship with ourselves. We also explore the complexities of self-worth, the impact of life changes, and the steps we can take to reclaim confidence and authenticity.
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| 0:00.0 | Now time to thank our partner of this episode, Alzheimer's Society. |
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| 1:00.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Emery Terrell, psychotherapist, author and well-recovering People Pleaser. Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. You've come to the right |
| 1:28.7 | place. |
| 1:37.0 | Welcome back to this week's episode of Dial Emma. And in true end of January, beginning of February spirit, I have had a dilemma that I really wanted to bring to life at this particular time because it's all about self-esteem. |
| 1:53.6 | And we have heard so much, I'm sure I have, I'm sure you have, about new years and new years and new use and reinventions and time to kind of have |
| 2:02.1 | these big beginnings. And I'm not a big fan of reinventions. I kind of like a slow evolve. |
| 2:08.8 | But in the spirit of self-esteem, I think that can be something that really rears its ugly head |
| 2:14.7 | at this time of year, as with all times. So I'm going to start by sharing the |
| 2:19.2 | dilemma that we've got this week. And then I'm going to explain who is joining me to help me |
| 2:24.0 | unpack this dilemma and why they're the only person I could have asked. Without further ado, |
| 2:29.7 | I'm about to turn 50 and on the outside, my life looks fine. I have a job I'm good at, long-standing |
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