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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
This week, I'm delighted to be tackling our listener dilemma with another special guest: psychologist and author of How to Be Selfish, Suzy Reading.
Suzy joins me to talk about the emotional toll of constantly “holding everything together” and why so many people, especially women, struggle to rest without guilt. Responding to a listener who feels invisible after years of caring for her children, ageing parents, and partner, we explore how cultural conditioning and inherited beliefs teach us that self-worth comes from selflessness, and how we can reframe those beliefs to find better self-advocacy in our daily lives.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do. |
| 0:02.1 | Dominate your finances. |
| 0:04.3 | Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed. |
| 0:10.9 | Drowning in green. |
| 0:12.7 | Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale. |
| 0:14.7 | This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills, get some better money intel, |
| 0:20.2 | and save up for that new skateboard. |
| 0:22.3 | We're helping young people become money confident. |
| 0:25.4 | Search Barclay's life skills. |
| 0:27.5 | Barclays, make money work for you. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Emery Terrell, psychotherapist, author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:42.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:46.7 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:50.5 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. So if you've got a |
| 0:56.1 | question, you don't know how to ask out loud. You've come to the right place. |
| 1:03.9 | Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma, and I think it's one that a lot of us are going to have some sort of recognition of because it's about that feeling of holding everything together, whether that's kids, work, your own parents, and coming to that realization that there's not very much left for you when it gets to the end of the day. |
| 1:26.9 | So we're here today to talk about why it can feel so selfish to rest, where the guilt comes |
| 1:32.5 | from when we try to put ourselves first, and how resentment builds when others don't seem to |
| 1:36.5 | carry quite the same load. Most of all, we're here to talk about how to start making space |
| 1:41.7 | for your own needs without feeling like you're letting everyone else down. Today's listener is wondering what happens when the person who keeps |
| 1:49.6 | everyone else afloat starts to sink herself. This dilemma gets straight to the heart of what |
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