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The Therapy Edit

One Thing with Dr Michelle Tolfrey on finding joy when the plan doesn't go to plan

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 915 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 14 June 2024

ā±ļø 26 minutes

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Summary

In this guest episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna chats to Clinical Psychologist Dr Michelle Tolfrey about her One Thing: finding joy when the plan doesn't go to plan.

Michelle is a Clinical Psychologist with over twenty years of experience. She has aĀ particular interest in reproductive trauma, loss, and grief.

Michelle’s own losses on her path to parenthood have significantly shaped her work as a psychologist, and she proudly integrates her professional expertise with that of her expertise by lived experience.

Michelle’s newsletter,Ā From the Other Chair, provides a wealth of information on navigating life after loss and finding joy in living the life you didn’t expect or plan.Ā Alongside herĀ private therapy practice, Michelle also runsĀ The Loss Collective. Here you can find high quality and easily accessible information and guidance about navigating life after pregnancy and baby loss.

We hope this episode offers comfort to those of you navigating a life that isn't quite as you'd always imagined it would be.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:09.0

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0:16.0

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0:24.0

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0:29.0

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0:35.2

Park Day free. Exclusions apply.

0:37.8

Poulton's Park!

0:38.8

Hello and welcome to The Therapy Edit with me psych therapists mom of three and author Anna Martha

0:47.0

every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere.

0:56.3

So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom.

1:00.4

I hope you enjoy it. Hello everyone, welcome to today's guest episode of the therapy edit I have with me today

1:08.8

Michelle, she's on Instagram as from the other chair with underscores in the middle and she is a clinical psychologist

1:16.6

and she's got over 20 years of experience. Now Michelle's got a particular interest in reproductive trauma, loss and grief and this has I guess

1:26.8

been spurred on by her own losses on her path to parent hit and those losses have significantly shaped her work as a psychologist and she proudly

1:36.3

integrates her professional expertise with that of her expertise of her lived experience and this is so evident on her social media and I think she

1:45.6

shares so openly but does that amazing thing of kind of underpinning it with her

1:50.3

psychological insights as well so you don't just feel like you're not alone.

1:55.2

You also are given that further amazing insight

1:58.9

into maybe a different way of seeing it

2:01.4

or just challenging or validating an emotion in a way that perhaps

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