S4, Ep 4 Best Friend Therapy: Self Worth - What is it? How can we improve our relationship with ourselves? Where do we start?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Emma explores the difference between self-esteem and "others-esteem" and why we can fall into the trap of outsourcing our sense of self to other people.
Elizabeth compares her self-worth to a solar panel and reveals why chunky socks are a better way to keep warm.
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Emma references the psychoanalytical theory of object relations and the work of Donald Winnicott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_relations_theory
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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp.
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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 |
| 0:59.8 | episode of Best Friend Therapy. We're talking about something that doesn't impact |
| 1:03.8 | me at all whatsoever because I'm a completely perfect sort of demon and I can see |
| 1:09.3 | Emma nodding in agreement and we're talking about self-worth and the lack of it. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm only taking because lack of self-worth and low self-esteem has been |
| 1:20.3 | something that has haunted me for my entire life and I know lots of listeners |
| 1:27.2 | will relate to that and feel it too and it's something that is particularly |
| 1:32.3 | prevalent for me at the moment and so I thought I'll do what I always do in |
| 1:37.7 | situations where I feel a bit lost and a bit confused and a bit scared and a |
| 1:41.5 | bit anxious. I'll download it all to Emma and I'll see what she says and then I'll |
| 1:46.4 | feel much better. So that's what we're talking about this week. We're talking |
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