S6, Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Break-ups with friends and family - Can you end a friendship? How do you change old family dynamics?

Friendship Therapy

Emma Reed Turrell

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

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our break-ups miniseries, and this week we're looking at the thorny issue of how to end, change or evolve a relationship with friends and family.

We talk about why remaining friends is not always as kind as we might think and why being authentic and accountable might actually be more generous.

Emma talks about non-verbal boundaries and how to reset realities for everyone's benefit, and Elizabeth describes what it feels like to be ghosted by a friend and what it looks like to grow apart.

We chat about the reciprocity of family relationships, how they need to work for everyone, why we need to challenge the taboo of family being fixed, the danger of toxic gratitude and how it can be healthier to recategorise certain family relationships.

We'll be back next week to look at break-ups of the professional variety!

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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and
0:05.8	podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist.
0:10.3	That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist. In my private
0:15.2	practice I talked to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and
0:18.5	we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their
0:22.0	sense of well-being. And as her BFF I get all the benefit of her expertise and
0:27.0	wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to
0:31.8	understand why I act the way I do. Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only
0:37.2	people allowed to call me Liz. We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and
0:41.8	throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we
0:46.5	chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. Two best friends, one
0:51.7	therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy.
0:57.1	Hello and welcome back. Wow! What was that? It was your end. Was it? It was a
1:04.7	welcome gong. It's part of Best Friend Therapy now. We start every episode
1:09.0	with a welcome gong. We have actually just been swimming up with our friends. Next
1:12.0	we'll be using sound balls. I also sang, who was I singing? Neil Diamond. I
1:20.5	went Neil Diamond, you and Adele. Yeah, but then I couldn't have any of the
1:23.6	generations. All I could remember was hello, which isn't it? It's not the lyric
1:31.3	that's the problem here, is it? Hello, my friend, hello, and that's how I break into
1:40.9	Neil Diamond each time. Just call to let you know. Anyway, moving on, we are
1:47.1	going to talk about friends, so this is all part of our plan. Welcome, there's
1:51.2	the gong. Now, this week we're talking about breakups again, because it's our
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