ShrinkChicks

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen help us approach a topic many of us avoid: having hard conversations. Whether with a family member, partner, friend, or coworker, confrontation is challenging! Em and Jen discuss where to start when having these conversations (and their #1 tips in doing so), how each of them approaches hard conversations in their lives, and the importance of speaking up when...

This week on ShrinkChicks, we are taking you back to our most popular episode of 2022: WTF is Radical Acceptance? Something Em & Jen are asked every time they do a Q&A is: "how do I not feel x, y, or z emotion?" Radical acceptance is a skill that they do a deep dive into in this episode, to help us work towards accepting unpleasant emotions rather than avoiding them. Emmalee and Jen explai...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen share their experiences of taking an intentional break from social media. They discuss how the break affected each of them and their relationships with social media in general. They then go on to answer your questions about the reality of a social media break, the FOMO that can stop you from taking a break, comparison on social media, accepting t...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen explain WTF Inner Child work actually entails! They discuss inner child wounds vs. the work we can do to heal them, signs you might want to start doing this work, paying attention to our triggers, and what it means to reparent your inner child. They talk about how we all adapted to our environments as children and how some of the survival tactics we used...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking all things stress: stress about being stressed, stress management, stress reduction, and the different kinds of stress. They share the skills we can work on to manage our stress, talk about their first experiences with stress, explain how they handle stress now, and dive into why certain kinds of stress are not always bad (hint: procrastination)....

Welcome back to Season 4 of ShrinkChicks! On today's episode, Emmalee and Jen sit down with Tori Dunlap, the amazing woman behind the social media accounts HerFirst100k! Tori is a globally-recognized personal finance educator, podcast host, social media star, and author. They start off the conversation by learning about Tori’s story and how she got started as a financial educator. Emmalee and Jen...

Today on ShrinkChicks, we are taking a break from a new episode to spend the holidays practicing what we preach, but didn't want to leave you all hanging! So we're re-releasing our most popular episode from this time last year: How to Set Boundaries with Your Mother-in-Law & More! In this episode, Emmalee and Jen dive into the topic of family dynamics and boundaries and how to navigate them du...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are answering all of your family dynamics questions that can become especially pertinent over the Holiday season. They cover guilt trips from parents, competition between in-laws, feeling envy toward someone else's family, when people do not accept your boundaries, feeling like an "other" in your family, radical acceptance, grieving the relationships you...

*Content Warning: sexual trauma, abuse* On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by the wonderful Dr. Holly Richmond who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Somatic Psychotherapist, Certified Sex Therapist, and author of the book  Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex-Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life . Holly sits down with Em and Jen to...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking about the challenges that can come when people in our lives - a friend, partner, family member - are struggling with their mental health. They dive right into your feedback and answer your questions about ways to suggest therapy to someone who is unwilling to try and the nuances that can exist, having hard conversations, setting firm boundarie...

Today on ShrinkChicks, one of The Therapy Group's amazing clinicians, Vlada Rultenberg, LSW, is hosting and interviewing Emmalee and Jen! She is taking your questions, combined with a few of her own, and sitting down with Em & Jen to ask them anything and everything. We learn the one thing that people would be surprised to know about each of them, their mottos for life, when they realized they...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are answering your questions about silencing the outside noise and expectations to figure out what it is you really want when it comes to relationships, career path, having kids (or not), and other life decisions. They discuss how this relates to people pleasing, the difference between being a people pleaser and compromising, how to know when it's time to qui...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking all about intergenerational patterns AKA the things that get passed down from generation to generation in our families of origin. They start the episode off by giving examples of intergenerational patterns and trauma and share some of the patterns that exist in both of their families. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions like, are divorce and...

On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen sit down to talk about the cycle of overthinking, why we do it, and what we could be avoiding in doing so. Em and Jen both share personal scenarios in which they've engaged in overthinking and the tactics they've implemented to help with it. They answer your questions about overthinking social interactions, what it means to acknowledge and "f...

Today Emmalee and Jen are joined by Todd Baratz, LMHC, the face behind one of their favorite Instagram accounts @ yourdiagnonsense ! Todd shares his humor and insight with Em and Jen as they answer your questions and discuss many topics like why attachment style isn't the be-all-end-all, the fundamental uncertainty of relationships, why being clingy gets such a bad rep, how we’re all striving for...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen sit down to talk about the pain and challenges of romantic break-ups. They discuss their most challenging break-up stories, sitting in the deep pain of a break-up, breaking up with someone as a people pleaser, grieving the future we had envisioned, how long to wait before moving on, healing, and so much more. Tune in to gain insight, awareness and action!...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen talk all about change and why it can be so hard. They share how they each process change, individually, and why it works for them. They then discuss how to move through the fear of change, the loss of control that comes with change, why we need time to adjust to change, the fear of changing a good thing or disrupting the status quo, their most ch...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen dive into part two of people in our lives who aren't "doing the work." They continue to answer listener questions such as how to enjoy these people, when is it "too much," and how to respond to manipulation. They discuss ultimatums and setting the hard boundary, how it can be so hard to receive what we've asked for, grieving the fact that some people in o...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen present part one of their two-part series about the people in our lives who aren't "doing the work." Whether that's your mom, partner, friend, sibling, dad, cousin, etc., they answer listener questions about the frustrations that can occur when it feels like you're the only one working on yourself in your interpersonal relationships. They discuss...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen cover one of their most requested topics: friendship break-ups. They discuss why friendship break-ups hurt so much and the validity of that pain, ghosting in friendships and the lack of closure, friendship break-ups not being as normalized as romantic break-ups in our society, the fear around being truthful with our friends, the challenges of making frien...

Today's episode of ShrinkChicks is dedicated to advice for our younger selves. Emmalee and Jen share the advice they would give to their younger selves and also the advice written in by their audience. They start the episode by reminiscing on the early days of The Therapy Group and the amount of anxiety they had while building the business. They talk through how they've grown since then and the ad...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amelia Innis, LMFT, one of their amazing clinicians at The Therapy Group. Amelia specializes in working with couples and shares her approach to couples therapy, which is rooted in honesty and direction. She discusses the importance of honesty in romantic relationships as well as the therapeutic relationship and why we can't expect our partne...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amy Crichton, LMFT, one of their wonderful therapists from The Therapy Group, and her brother, Josh Weaver! Josh and Amy share the incredible story of how they discovered they were siblings just about three years ago. Spoiler alert: our parents' generation did not anticipate DNA test kits being so accessible! Josh explains how he fo...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen discuss a question they asked their Instagram followers: what do you hesitate to share with your therapist in therapy? The responses received were overwhelming, so they made an episode of it! Em and Jen anonymously share responses including: sex, masturbation, suicidal ideation, shame, drug and alcohol usage, not taking the therapist's advice, trauma, fin...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by one of their amazing clinicians, Colton Hott, PC! Colton shares his journey to becoming a therapist plus his experience working in the cannabis industry. He answers some of your questions like: can I tell my therapist I use cannabis, why can cannabis ease anxiety one time and heighten anxiety another time, what if you and your partner have diffe...