"Nothing is wrong, but nothing feels right" Dial Emma: The Unsaid
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In honour of International Women’s Day, Dial Emma presents The Unsaid – a four-part mini-series exploring the emotional realities many women are living with, but rarely have language for. Each episode features two listener dilemmas and twenty minutes of thoughtful, compassionate reflection on the inner work women are doing beneath the surface of competence, independence and survival.
This first instalment explores a theme that resonates deeply for many of us: doing objectively well in life, but still feeling wrong beneath it all.
Our first dilemma comes from a listener who says that nothing is wrong in her life, but something about it doesn't feel right, either. Our second listener feels like she has ticked every box, but finds herself contending with a sense of itchiness and dissatisfaction.
In this episode, I explore functional freeze, delayed desire, the pressure to feel grateful, and the quiet awakening of something more honest beneath achievement.
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Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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| 0:00.0 | They only really came for the fashion. |
| 0:03.0 | John had spent weeks scouring the internet |
| 0:06.0 | for the perfect houndstooth jacket to complete his outfit. |
| 0:09.0 | But when a Ford Gt 40 roaring by at 150 miles per hour |
| 0:14.0 | made him spill his drink all over himself, |
| 0:17.0 | he was surprised to find he didn't mind at all. |
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| 0:29.9 | Tickets available now. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Emma Reed-Torrell, psychotherapist, author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:46.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:50.1 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:54.7 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 0:58.3 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 1:00.1 | You've come to the right place. |
| 1:22.8 | Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma, and this week, in order of International Women's Day, I wanted to start a mini-series all about the thoughts and feelings. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm not going to say issues. |
| 1:32.8 | I'm going to say preoccupations that we as women feel that aren't always talked about. So this is the first of four. March will be all about dilemma, the unsaid. |
| 1:49.9 | Today we have two dilemmas and if I was to link them, |
| 1:58.9 | I suppose I would, I would say that their theme is doing well, feeling wrong. Let's start with the first dilemma. |
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