S2, Ep 2 Best Friend Therapy: Fertility - What's the reality? How does the language impact us? How can we support each other?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode is on a subject that's incredibly close to our hearts - fertility.
We wanted to do it justice by sharing some very personal stories and so it feels important to say that, if you are going through a fertility journey right now and don't feel this is the episode for you, we see you and we will be here for you if you want to come back to it another time.
If you do want to listen, we see you too, and you'll hear us talk openly about miscarriage, IVF and the realities of parenthood. You'll hear Elizabeth coin a phrase that everyone has to hear - "fertility privilege" - and you'll hear first hand how to support someone else who is going through their own journey to parenthood.
If this episode resonates with you, we hope you feel less alone after listening.
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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. Hello and welcome to Best |
| 0:59.6 | Friend Therapy and today we're discussing a topic that is very close to my |
| 1:05.2 | heart which is the topic of fertility and I say fertility quite specifically |
| 1:10.4 | because I feel that the term infertility is unnecessarily stigmatising and |
| 1:17.6 | labelling. In much the same way as disability can be for some people. However, I |
| 1:23.6 | also acknowledge that that's the language we have readily available so we will |
| 1:28.6 | probably use that word but I wanted to go in saying fertility because so many of |
| 1:34.8 | us have unstrake forward complicated journeys with that concept and I'm |
| 1:43.0 | certainly no exception and yet it feels as though in society until really, |
| 1:50.2 | really recently and I'm talking the last 10 years, there really hasn't been |
| 1:55.6 | given that much airplay to the issues around fertility but at the same time |
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