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.

Hello, today on Best Friend Therapy we are doing something that has proved very

popular in the past with our lovely listeners, which is where I, Elizabeth,

proper myself as a willing guinea pig for Emma to perform active therapy on

while you all listen in. Isn't that right, Emma? That is right. And I like the fact

that I've already used some of my mind control techniques to persuade her that

she is a willing guinea pig. When really she's not at all, she's just dragged

along for the ride every time and we greatly appreciate it. Well now you're

gas-licing me, which is another topic in the season. But we have done it before

we've done it with transactional analysis and we've done it with dreams and

we've done it another time and I can't remember games. We've done it a bit

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