"Who am I now that my kids don't need me?": Dial Emma Reframes Ep 4
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma and to the fourth and last episode of our mini-series on reframes. Thank you so much for joining me, and please do let me know what you thought of the series!
This week, our listener is in her fifties, wondering who she is now that her grown-up children no longer need her in the same way they once did.
In this episode, I dive deeper into what happens when the conditions that we place on our self-worth shift and change, the process of returning to the self after decades of existing for others, and how we can learn to see ourselves again in the midst of an emergence.
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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| 0:00.0 | People across the country are feeling all warm and fuzzy about their heat pumps. |
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| 0:16.1 | You get a lovely steady temperature. |
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| 0:27.6 | Eligibility criteria applies the website for details. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your Dial Emas meet my therapeutic |
| 0:36.5 | insights. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Emma Reed-Torrell, psychotherapist, author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:46.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:50.1 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:54.7 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 0:58.3 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 1:00.1 | You've come to the right place. |
| 1:16.7 | Welcome back to this week's episode of DiLama and to week four of my lovely listener dilemmas all about the theme of reframes. |
| 1:23.5 | So far, we've heard, well, from me, and we've heard from our lovely listeners in their 20s, their 30s and their 40s. |
| 1:32.0 | Today, we have someone who wants to talk about whether or not she feels irrelevant and whether there's another way she can learn to see herself. |
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