Unknot Your Future Self

Send us Fan Mail Emma Lawton and Sarah Baker are therapists and long-time friends who have been in conversation about life, loss, and relationships since 2011. Between them, they bring deep experience in systemic work, trauma, bereavement, and the quiet ways people learn to abandon themselves in order to cope. Emma is a systemic life coach and family therapist, supporting high-functioning women wh...

Send us Fan Mail This mini message brought to you by Emma, discusses our relationship with new years resolutions; change and why 2025 has been a difficult year.  That change brings uncertainty and is often hard...but is always worth it.  Happy New Year, Emma and Sarah x Support the show Please feel free to leave us some feedback and let us know any subjects you would like us to talk about on the s...

Send us Fan Mail In this Christmas special of The Unknot Your Future Self Podcast , Emma and Sarah sit down to talk about what Christmas really brings up for people — beyond the matching pyjamas and forced cheer. For many, Christmas isn’t restful. It’s activating. Family roles resurface. Old patterns creep back in. Expectations collide with reality. Grief, guilt, resentment, and pressure all show...

Send us Fan Mail Trigger warning contains content that some listeners may feel affected by. Usual profanities and humour are evident.  Join Sarah and Emma as we talk about the impacts of grief and loss.  In this episode, we explore the nuances of grief and loss as well as the individual experiences on people and society.  We add our usual dose of humour and scratch the surface of a topic that is u...

Send us Fan Mail Have your attempts at new years resolutions fallen short already?  Are you needing change but have no idea where to start.  Well, the good news is you don't need to pay a therapist or coach just yet as we are here to show you how.  Forget new years resolutions, we prefer transformational change but know that people often struggle to get motivated and know where to start, so w...

Send us Fan Mail Join us, Sarah and Emma, for episode 5 of the Unknot Your Future Self Podcast.   With more and more people coming to our counselling and coaching practices reporting struggles with symptoms of neurodiversity, this episode is a much-needed, raw, and honest conversation.  Although we merely scratch the surface on the topic of neurodiversity including ASD and ADHD in adults we felt w...

Send us Fan Mail Trigger warning:  This episode references eating disorders and could cause distress. Please talk to a professional if you are triggered by any of the content in today's episode.  Body image is an issue that affects thousands of people.  Join us, Emma and Sarah for episode 4.  In this episode we talk about body image; the psychological issues of food addiction and Emma talks a...

Send us Fan Mail Join Sarah and Emma in Episode 3.  It's a big one this month as we explore the emotion of shame. We also look at the concept of 'deny, distort and make it fit' by Cark Roger (Very Famous Therapist) and how sometimes our emotions are not actually the ones we really feel! Are you an angry person?  There's every chance you're not...so take a listen.  Shame ha...

Send us Fan Mail Join us Sarah and Emma, psychotherapists and life coaches in this exciting, hilarious and perhaps inappropriate, episode 2.   Journey with us how we talk openly about anxiety, depression, and the small and subtle ways you can take back control in your life. We explore fun (or the lack of it) and why laughter really is the best medicine.  This episode sees us share insight into the...

Send us Fan Mail In this exciting first episode join psychotherapists and life long friends Sarah and Emma as they talk all things personal development; psychology and wellbeing. In todays episode we talk about the metaphor of wearing a mask and how this this can negatively impact how we show up in the world.  We explore how it can hold us back from living a life that is authentic and true to ours...