S3, Ep 7 Friendship Therapy: Feeling like an Outsider - seeking self awareness, connection and intimacy in friendship
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emma is joined by Sarah, who has been navigating feelings of loneliness and being an outsider in her friendship groups.
In this conversation, Emma and Sarah explore what it means to fit in, what it's like when you don't get joy from the same things that your friends find enjoyable, or at least seem to, and whether what we're all really seeking is a U-shaped space that is made to measure and entirely ours to fill.
Emma and Sarah also talk about why learning about what we actually like can bring us a sense of relief, but it can also bring grief too.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we look at friendships through a therapeutic lens. |
| 0:08.8 | And this week I'm joined by Sarah. Sarah joined me to talk about how it feels to be the outsider in friendship groups. |
| 0:17.6 | We started thinking about what it means to fit in. and we came to wonder whether what we're all really seeking is a you-shaped space made to measure and ours to fill. |
| 0:31.5 | We talked about what it's like when you don't get joy from the same things that your friends do, or at least seem to, |
| 0:39.2 | with a nod to the ultimate Hindu fallacy here. And we explore how learning what we actually like |
| 0:45.7 | can bring us relief, but it can bring us grief as well. I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi, Sarah. How can I help? |
| 0:56.5 | Hi, Emma. I would really like to talk about some difficulties that I'm having with my |
| 1:01.8 | friendships. You're in the right place. I'll start by saying that. You've come to the right |
| 1:07.0 | place. How can we help you today? What difficulties would be useful for us to unpack? |
| 1:13.5 | There's a real sense that I've had for most of my adult life, I would say, of loneliness. |
| 1:22.3 | And I have some very special friendships and relationships in my life. |
| 1:28.5 | But I also just feel quite lonely in those spaces. |
| 1:32.5 | And I often feel like I'm different. |
| 1:38.0 | Okay. |
| 1:38.6 | That I'm not fitting in. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah, perhaps I enjoy different things. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah, like I'm not part of the gang. |
| 1:48.0 | Tell me a bit more about that. |
| 1:49.2 | When you know that part of you, the part that feels different, |
| 1:53.3 | what's different about you? |
| 1:54.9 | Tell me about you. |
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