S2, Ep 4 Best Friend Therapy: Toxic Friendships - How do we define friendship? What makes a friendship toxic? What can we do about it?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We talk about how the pandemic reset friendship protocol for many of us, how introverts and extroverts get along, different definitions of friendship and what a co-dependent friendship feels like.
We practice using conflict constructively to negotiate healthy friendship boundaries and we tackle that dreaded question, how do you break up with a friend?
Elizabeth gets her head around the concept of friendship dating and Emma introduces the idea of a friendship Venn diagram. She loves a diagram.
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Elizabeth refers to our first episode of Season 2 about People-Pleasing, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2-ep1-best-friend-therapy-people-pleasing-why-do-we/id1614793299?i=1000570241594
Glennon Doyle's podcast "We Can Do Hard Things" can be heard here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/we-can-do-hard-things-with-glennon-doyle/id1564530722
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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp. To contact us, email contact@bestfriendtherapy.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Luxury Seekers, listen up. We're Ren and we make high-end kitchens for down-to-earth budgets. |
| 0:09.0 | At last, you can have the fancy wine fridge and you deserve the sparkly quartz. |
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| 0:23.0 | We're Ren and this is The Great Renovation. |
| 0:28.0 | Visit your nearest showroom. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Elizabeth Day, author and podcaster and for over 20 years, I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:41.0 | That's me. Hello, I'm Emily Terrell and I'm a psychotherapist. |
| 0:45.0 | In my private practice, I talk to clients about the challenges they face in daily life |
| 0:49.0 | and we work together in a non-judgmental, supportive space to increase their sense of well-being. |
| 0:53.0 | And as her BFF, I get all the benefit of her expertise and wisdom for free. |
| 0:58.0 | Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to understand why I act the way I do. |
| 1:04.0 | Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only people allowed to call me Liz. |
| 1:09.0 | We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. |
| 1:15.0 | Each week, we chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. |
| 1:20.0 | Two best friends, one therapist, no filter. |
| 1:24.0 | That's Best Friend Therapy. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy. |
| 1:31.0 | Today we're talking about something that came up, I think more than any other suggestion. |
| 1:36.0 | Yes, it did. |
| 1:37.0 | So at the end of season one, we asked our lovely listeners |
| 1:40.0 | if there was anything they would like us to talk about and what came up most was friendships and not just friendship |
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