S4, Ep 1 Best Friend Therapy: Grief - How can we cope with loss? What is the function of grief? How can we help people who are grieving?
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Emma Reed Turrell
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to season four of Best Friend Therapy!
We wanted to open this new beginning with a conversation about ending because the two go hand in hand and because grief is a subject that touches us all.
It has been one of our most requested topics and we hope we can do it justice, as we discuss aspects of grief such as anticipatory grief, traumatic grief and collective grief, how to support others who are grieving, and how to parent children through loss.
Emma explains the the 'concertina' effect we can feel when past losses catch up with us in the present and Elizabeth shares the stories of people she has interviewed, that have helped her understand how to live alongside loss.
Not only dealing with bereavement, we cover the ending of friendships, the loss that comes with house moves and empty-nest syndrome, to understand how we can make meaning of grief and why its purpose is also positive.
And, if you're grieving right now - know that we see you and you're not alone.
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Elizabeth references these books that she has found to be helpful: "A Heart that Works" by Rob Delaney, "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, and "After You" by Natascha McElhone.
And you can hear Elizabeth interviewing Mo Gawdat on her podcast How to Fail here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-fail-with-elizabeth-day/id1407451189?i=1000436244962
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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp.
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| 0:00.0 | With Peloton offering up to £400 of selected bike plus and tread packages, |
| 0:04.7 | you might go all in with their classes and become a marathon training shadow boxing, |
| 0:08.6 | weightlifting, yoga loving, falls of nature. |
| 0:11.2 | Or you may just want to be able to touch your toes. |
| 0:15.0 | From big sweaty goals to bendy toe touching goals and everything in between, |
| 0:18.8 | start strong with up to £400 of selected Peloton packages. |
| 0:22.7 | Ofference 35th of January 2024. |
| 0:24.7 | Internet connection and Peloton all access membership £39 per month required. |
| 0:28.4 | C1 Peloton.co.uk |
| 0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Elizabeth Day, author and podcaster and for over 20 years, |
| 0:38.3 | I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:40.8 | That's me. Hello, I'm Emery Terrell and I'm a psychotherapist. |
| 0:44.7 | In my private practice, I talk to clients about the challenges they face in daily life |
| 0:48.7 | and we work together in a non-judgmental, supportive space to increase their sense of well-being. |
| 0:53.3 | And as her BFF, I get all the benefit of her expertise and wisdom for free. |
| 0:58.6 | Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to understand why I act the way I do. |
| 1:04.8 | Ah, thanks Liz. |
| 1:06.0 | She's also one of the only people allowed to call me Liz. |
| 1:09.3 | We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and throw a light on the therapy we all need |
| 1:14.0 | in our everyday lives. |
| 1:15.8 | Each week, we chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. |
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