S4 Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Guilt - Why do we feel bad? When is it misplaced? What can we do about it?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Emma explains the difference between authentic guilt and the misplaced guilt we can feel when we turn anger back in on ourselves, and Eizabeth shares 40 things that made her feel guilty in 2021 (and some that still make her feel guilty now!).
We talk about how men and women do guilt differently, how guilt can function as a form of self-preservation, why parental guilt stops us problem-solving effectively and what you should do if you still haven't made that phone call (eek).
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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. Good morning. All good |
| 0:59.0 | afternoon. All dare I say good evening. Maybe it's the middle of the night and you |
| 1:03.3 | can't sleep. I don't know when he listens to Best Friend Therapy but I do know |
| 1:06.5 | that we're very glad that you do and we're delighted to have you here back for |
| 1:11.1 | another episode. This is one of those topics that has been requested so many times |
| 1:16.0 | and we've touched on it in various other episodes because it affects so many |
| 1:21.2 | aspects of our of our lives. We did one episode in season one called Shudson |
| 1:25.4 | Orts which briefly touched on it but we thought we would devote an entire |
| 1:29.2 | episode to the naughty difficult issue of guilt, didn't we? We did and we're |
| 1:36.2 | going to clean that writer untangle those knots and we'll all be guilt free. We |
| 1:41.6 | will and I thought a good way of starting this was just to quote myself. The reason |
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