Welcome to Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we therapists some of the most influential relationships will ever have in life.

I'm Emmerie Terrell, a psychotherapist and author, and I'm here to help you understand the issues 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.

Each week I'll be joined by a guest who comes to better understand their friendships

and leaves with a better understanding of themselves.

Join the conversation and understand yourself and your friendships better too.

Welcome back to this episode of Friendship Therapy.

Thank you for joining us again and today I'm absolutely delighted to have Rachel with us.

Rachel is going to share with us her thoughts about evolving friendships, about how your identity can be woven through

friendships and what that looks like then for your identity when those friendships evolve.

And also we're going to talk about bereavement and how bereavement affects

friendship. So we've got a lot to get through which means that we will roll our

sleeves up and get stuck in. So welcome Rachel, Thank you for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

Honestly, it's really lovely to be able to open up some of these topics

and learn a bit about myself as well.

Personally, I mean, I'm like, I couldn't agree more, obviously I think that otherwise I wouldn't be doing

the podcast, but I think you're absolutely right, this is just so many conversations that there are to have

aren't there and we're just going to take this opportunity to have one of them.

And Rachel was just telling me before we started recording that you were at the live show for best friend therapy in April

so if anyone saw Rachel there she's sending you high fives right now.

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