Emma Reed Turrell

Dial Emma

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If you’ve ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here. 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. Got a tricky situation, emotional tangle, or just need a fresh perspective? I’d love to hear from you. Please do get in contact via my online webform here: forms.gle/gSE8Pa8HnqU2B2c59For more trusted advice, please do give the show a follow on Instagram @dialemmapodcast(https://www.instagram.com/dialemmapodcast)

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Emma Reed Turrell

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S2, Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Divorce - Is it failure or evolution? How does it affect wider relationships? Is there a way to divorce well? 21.08.2022 49:18

Welcome to Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds, and this week we're turning up the volume on some Tammy Wynette (not Dolly Parton, Emma) to talk about D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Stigmatised by society as a shameful failure, or presented as an opportunity to grow and evolve, divorce (as the name suggests) can be divisive. We challenge the notion that a long-...

S2, Ep 5 Best Friend Therapy: Feelings - Why do we have feelings? What should we do with them? Is anxiety a masking emotion? 14.08.2022 45:54

Welcome to Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds, and this week we're bringing you a Feelings 101 - everything you ever needed to know about what we feel, why we feel, and how feelings can be our best guides when it comes to meeting our needs. Sadness, anger, fear, joy, jealousy, envy, guilt or shame. Pick your poison. There's a feeling for every...

S2, Ep 4 Best Friend Therapy: Toxic Friendships - How do we define friendship? What makes a friendship toxic? What can we do about it? 07.08.2022 47:31

Welcome to Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds, and this week we're talking about a hotly requested topic - toxic friendships. We talk about how the pandemic reset friendship protocol for many of us, how introverts and extroverts get along, different definitions of friendship and what a co-dependent friendship feels like. We practice using confl...

S2, Ep 3 Best Friend Therapy: Jealousy - Why do we feel jealous? How does it affect our relationships? What can we do about it? 31.07.2022 45:17

Welcome to Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds, and this week we're talking about jealousy. Do you have a touch of the green-eyed monster? Well, that might not be a bad thing. Because jealousy can show up to tell us when a relationship we value requires some maintenance - we jealously guard something because it matters to us. Sometimes that rela...

S2, Ep 2 Best Friend Therapy: Fertility - What's the reality? How does the language impact us? How can we support each other? 24.07.2022 47:19

TW: Miscarriage This week's episode is on a subject that's incredibly close to our hearts - fertility. We wanted to do it justice by sharing some very personal stories and so it feels important to say that, if you are going through a fertility journey right now and don't feel this is the episode for you, we see you and we will be here for you if you want to come back to it another time. If you do...

S2, Ep1 Best Friend Therapy: People-Pleasing - Why do we do it? Is it really nice to be nice? How do we say no? 17.07.2022 48:47

We're back! We're so happy to be coming to you with Season Two of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. And we have felt SO bad about having left you for so long. We've been worried that we'd let you down, or you wouldn't like us anymore. So we stayed up all night thinking about how to make it up to you, how to please you... hmmn. Hang on a minut...

S1, Ep 8 Best Friend Therapy: Endings - Are they a bad thing? What's the difference between loss and change? How do we make meaning? 15.05.2022 37:34

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. Well, we've reached the final episode of season one (sob!) so it seemed only fitting to make this a conversation all about endings. But don't panic, because we also look at the beginnings that follow endings - including the beginning of season two of Best Friend Therapy, which will...

S1, Ep 7 Best Friend Therapy: Competition - What does winning mean? Why does it matter? Who are we really competing with? 08.05.2022 35:18

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. This episode is all about competition - how it can become a problem when it comes from a place of scarcity and how we can learn to develop an abundance mindset that allows us to reach our goals more securely and meaningfully. We look at competition through the lens of attachment the...

S1, Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Bodies - Is age just a number? How much does appearance matter? What part does social media play? 01.05.2022 41:44

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. TW: eating disorders This episode is all about bodies - how we can divorce our bodies from our minds if we're not careful, how we feel about our physical appearance and what getting older means for us. Covering areas such as fertility and menopause, social media and dress sizes, we...

S1, Ep 5 Best Friend Therapy: Special Occasions - How do we feel about them? Who are they for? What's so special about them anyway? 24.04.2022 41:39

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. This week we're talking about special occasions - from the happiest day of your life to the most wonderful time of the year - and why they're not always what they're cracked up to be. Ironic, given that today is actually Emma's birthday (but don't mention it, will you?) Whether it's...

S1, Ep 4 Best Friend Therapy: Imposter Syndrome - What is it? How does it show up? Are we the only ones who feel it? 17.04.2022 45:09

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. This week we're talking about Imposter Syndrome and why, if you've ever felt like the odd one out, you're in good company. Join us on an Inception-like head-scratcher as we experience Imposter Syndrome whilst talking about Imposter Syndrome in an attempt to make the episode "good en...

S1, Ep 3 Best Friend Therapy: Shoulds & Oughts - Why are we so tough on ourselves? Are we addicted to control? What if we let go? 10.04.2022 37:59

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. TW: miscarriage This week we're talking about shoulds and oughts and why we feel compelled to live our lives by some pretty tough rules at times. Elizabeth shares times in her life when structure has helped her to feel in control and Emma explains why criticism can sometimes be toug...

S1, Ep 2 Best Friend Therapy: Relationship Games - What games do we play at work, in friendships and with partners? And why do we do it? 03.04.2022 45:39

Welcome to this episode of Best Friend Therapy, where we chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. This week we're talking about games. Not Monopoly, as Elizabeth discovered, but the shortcuts we take in relationships to try and get our needs met, without even realising. Relationship games are the emotional sleight of hand we use to defend our vulnerability but they rarely get us...

S1, Ep 1 Best Friend Therapy: Boundaries - What are they? Do we need them? How do we say no? 27.03.2022 40:27

Welcome to the FIRST EVER EPISODE of Best Friend Therapy! Each week we'll open the doors to our friendship and chat about what's on our minds, to get deeper in our minds. And today we're starting with a conversation about something we all need in our everyday lives - boundaries. We explore what boundaries mean to us, how to set them and how to say no. Elizabeth tells us why she says sorry all the...