S1, Ep 8 Best Friend Therapy: Endings - Are they a bad thing? What's the difference between loss and change? How do we make meaning?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Well, we've reached the final episode of season one (sob!) so it seemed only fitting to make this a conversation all about endings. But don't panic, because we also look at the beginnings that follow endings - including the beginning of season two of Best Friend Therapy, which will be here before you know it!
We talk about the endings that arose through the pandemic, how friendships and relationships evolve, and what quitting really means. Elizabeth shares a personal experience of bereavement and Emma shares her perspective of grief through a therapy lens. It's not an easy listen at times, but one we hope will help anyone who has experienced loss themselves.
We hope that you've enjoyed this first season of Best Friend Therapy as much as we have and would love to hear from you! So why not email us or slide into our DMs and let us know what you'd like us to talk about next time.
We'll be back soon with another conversation for the soul but, in the meantime, if you could rate, review and subscribe, we'd be so grateful.
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Elizabeth references "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle.
Emma talks about the grief cycle, developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and made famous in her book, "On Death and Dying", in 1969.
Both are available from all good book stores.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and |
| 0:05.8 | podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:10.3 | That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist. In my private |
| 0:15.2 | practice I talked to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and |
| 0:18.5 | we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their |
| 0:22.0 | sense of well-being. And as her BFF I get all the benefit of her expertise and |
| 0:27.0 | wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to |
| 0:31.8 | understand why I act the way I do. Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only |
| 0:37.2 | people allowed to call me Liz. We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and |
| 0:41.8 | throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we |
| 0:46.5 | chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. Two best friends, one |
| 0:51.7 | therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy. Hi everyone and welcome to this |
| 1:00.2 | episode of Best Friend Therapy in which we're going to talk about endings and I |
| 1:05.1 | start on the agenda because I began a conversation with Liz the other day |
| 1:09.6 | about the pandemic ending or not or otherwise and whether I was being |
| 1:16.0 | intentional enough about endings and letting things end and letting things begin |
| 1:22.1 | or whether I was sort of mishmashing through life carrying things with me that I |
| 1:27.1 | didn't need. Just in the middle. In the middle? With it all sort of |
| 1:31.4 | sloshing around. Yeah so when I'm suggested endings and just |
| 1:35.6 | boldly typed it in a WhatsApp note to me I was like oh that's a bit of a |
| 1:39.3 | downer isn't it? Endings. Exactly that's where I went with it but then when she |
| 1:45.5 | explained a bit more I was like oh actually I've got loads to say about that |
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