S2, Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Divorce - Is it failure or evolution? How does it affect wider relationships? Is there a way to divorce well?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Stigmatised by society as a shameful failure, or presented as an opportunity to grow and evolve, divorce (as the name suggests) can be divisive.
We challenge the notion that a long-lasting marriage is a successful one, draw a distinction between "fair" and "equal" when it comes to co-parenting, and discuss the friendship and family fall-out that can come as a by-product of divorce.
Elizabeth shares her personal experience of divorce and takes Emma on a magical mystery tour through Elizabeth's experiences of dating in the aftermath. Roar.
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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 this week's |
| 0:59.7 | episode of Best Friend Therapy in which we're going to be talking about |
| 1:03.8 | Divos and at this point I'm going to hand over to Elizabeth. To the one who |
| 1:10.0 | knows something about it has been divorced. Just a cheery little topic. Kick us off. |
| 1:17.5 | D-I-V-O-R-C-E is the song went. What would Dolly do? What would Dolly do is |
| 1:22.8 | actually just a very good mantra for life. Thank you Emma for that lovely |
| 1:28.9 | introduction and yes as you so rightly point out I am the one between the two of |
| 1:33.6 | us who knows about divorce from a first-hand perspective but I know that you |
| 1:38.6 | will probably have dealt with divorce a lot with your clients. Yes so I've seen |
| 1:44.3 | more divorce and you've seen it slow-competition. Well last season would say it was and if you |
| 1:50.8 | want to know how to deal with the rest of this then I highly recommend our |
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