Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and

podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist.

That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist. In my private

practice I talked to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and

we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their

sense of well-being. And as her BFF I get all the benefit of her expertise and

wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to

understand why I act the way I do. Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only

people allowed to call me Liz. We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and

throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we

chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. Two best friends, one

therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy.

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy in which we are going to be

talking to you about teenagers. Being teenagers, having both been teenagers

ourselves and parenting teenagers which is something that came through in our

comments and our DMs. Yeah, they're upising teenagers and parents of teenagers.

So it's a big topic. We're going to kick off and I'm going to ask you Liz,

kind of teenager with you. Ah, thank you for asking me this because it was so

interesting as you were saying that in the introduction, that idea of having

been a teenager ourselves. And part of me is like obviously technically I was a

teenager because I was the ages 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 but I didn't act in a

teenage way. So I wasn't a typical teenager in the sense that we often are

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