S1, Ep 1 NEW Friendship Therapy: Yin and Yang - how complementary friendships can help us grow as individuals

Friendship Therapy

Emma Reed Turrell

Society & Culture, Relationships, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first ever episode of Friendship Therapy, a brand new podcast where psychotherapist, author and podcaster Emma Reed Turrell looks at your friendship experiences through a therapy lens.

This week, Emma speaks to best friends for 25 years, Janine and Julia. Describing their personalities as ‘yin and yang’, these two women were thrown together in the school playground, becoming friends by default rather than design. In the years that followed, they worked to grow and nurture a deeply meaningful, complex friendship that has seen them through some of the most challenging and joyful moments in their lives.

From school sleepover dramas and Sunday night phone calls after Dawson’s Creek, to relationship breakdowns, motherhood and changing priorities, Janine and Julia have remained the constant in each other’s lives for more than two decades.

In this very special debut episode, Emma explores the evolution of Janine and Julia’s friendship over the decades, the roles that these two friends filled for each other, and the enduring power of unconditional love, acceptance and consistency in friendship.

If you’d like to apply to appear on the podcast in season two, please click the link below:

https://forms.gle/owsfs6DVxVdTMFo46

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Friendship Therapy is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp and Lauren Brook.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Protein Works, creators of award-winning tasty food, shakes and snacks.
0:07.5	Welcome to Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we therapies some of the most influential relationships we'll ever have in life.
0:15.0	I'm Emmery Terrell, a psychotherapist and author, and I'm here to help you understand the issues
0:20.1	we all face in friendships, whether it's the end of a friendship, the impact of major life events on our friendship groups, or the challenges of making new friends in later life.
0:29.5	Each week I'll be joined by a guest who comes to better understand their friendships and leaves with a better
0:34.9	understanding of themselves. Join the conversation and understand yourself and your friendships better too.
0:49.6	Hello and welcome to Friendship Therapy, the brand new podcast in which we put friendships under a therapeutic spotlight and find out what makes and breaks a friendship and how we can all build better
0:54.5	bonds. If you've been on the best friend therapy journey with me already,
0:58.0	welcome back and this is your turn to tell me all about your friends. I'll help
1:02.4	you resolve conflict, grieve
1:03.9	endings and understand those tricky friendship blind spots that trip us up and get in
1:08.5	our way. Today I'm joined by two guests, friends for over 25 years who are going to help me
1:15.0	launch this season by going back to the very beginning, childhood
1:19.5	friendships and how they change. Welcome Julia and Janine and thank you for being here.
1:26.0	Thank you for having us.
1:28.0	How does it feel you're my first guests on Friendship Therapy?
1:32.0	No pressure.
1:33.4	But it feels really honourable.
1:36.4	Yeah.
1:37.4	Oh, excellent. Well, you have the honor and it's my honor to have you here as well.
1:42.3	So today I think what I loved about the email you sent in was actually was three words. It said something like through the mill. Our friendship we've been through the mill and you know what I thought I want to hear about that
1:56.4	mill I want to know all about it and as a therapist I suppose my role is really to see what I can offer you in terms of helping
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