S3, Ep 1 Best Friend Therapy: Anger - Is anger different from rage? How can it help us? Why do we end up feeling guilty instead?
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Emma Reed Turrell
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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We are so delighted to be with you for another season of conversations and this week we’re talking about something that gets a bad rap in our society and is often misunderstood – it’s the feeling of anger and it’s one of Emma’s favourites.
We talk about the difference between anger management and anger expression, understand why Elizabeth shut herself in a cupboard and gave herself a good talking to, and we explain why guilt and anger are so often muddled up.
We take a magical mystery tour through female rage from Rosa Parks to Lorena Bobbit, stop off with Michael Douglas in Falling Down, and end up at the dog park with Emma and Betty (her golden retriever), to hopefully bring you a better understanding of what anger is, and what it isn’t.
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Elizabeth's understanding of anger was informed by:
"Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery
https://www.waterstones.com/book/anne-of-green-gables/l-m-montgomery/9780349009308
and:
"Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger" by Rebecca Traister https://www.waterstones.com/book/good-and-mad/rebecca-traister/9781501181818
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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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Emma Reed Turrell @emmareedturrell
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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. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello everyone and welcome back to season three, count them three. Of Best Friend |
| 1:05.0 | Therapy we are so delighted to be back in our happy place talking to all of you |
| 1:10.8 | about the things on our mind. In hopefully an accessible warm and therapeutic |
| 1:17.4 | way, it is a delight to be back. I'm Elizabeth Day and I'm here with my Bestie. |
| 1:22.3 | That would be me. I'm Emma Reed-Terrell. I am so delighted to be back and I can't |
| 1:26.3 | wait to get stuck into this week's topic. Yes, we decided we'd open with |
| 1:31.0 | something pretty bold, unapologetically so and because I think we're both over |
| 1:37.5 | the last 24 hours, we both felt it. Not with each other but with circumstances |
| 1:44.0 | and with interactions and our topic today is anger, rage, fury and specifically |
| 1:52.3 | I think the way that anger for women, this is my point of view anyway, has been |
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