S7 Ep 2 Best Friend Therapy: Emotional Detachment - When should we take a step back? What stops us? Can it make for healthier relationships?
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
* What's the difference between emotional detachment and emotional unavailability?
* Why can needs get confused with neediness?
* How do sympathy and empathy serve different purposes?
We explore how emotional detachment can actually help us to develop greater empathy and deepen authentic relationships, with others and ourselves. And we explain what happens when we don’t detach - how we can lose objectivity and fall foul of merging with others, enmeshing our experiences, projecting our beliefs and outsourcing our authentic needs...
Emma explains why she used to work for brownie points and Elizabeth gets interested in the inner psyche of the teenage girl.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Best Friend Therapy. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Elizabeth Day, author and podcaster, |
| 0:06.0 | and for over 20 years, |
| 0:08.0 | I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:10.0 | That's me. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, I'm Emoryt Terrell and I'm a psychotherapist. |
| 0:14.8 | In my private practice I talk to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and we work together |
| 0:19.4 | in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their sense of well-being. |
| 0:23.0 | And as her BFF, I get all the benefit of her expertise and wisdom for free. |
| 0:28.0 | Emma makes me feel better about life, but also helps me to understand why I act the way I do. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, thanks Liz. |
| 0:35.8 | She's also one of the only people allowed to call me Liz. |
| 0:39.2 | We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. |
| 0:45.9 | Each week we chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. |
| 0:50.4 | Two best friends, one therapist, no filter. |
| 0:54.0 | That's best friend therapy. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome back to this week's episode of best friend therapy, |
| 1:02.0 | and it is very lovely to be in your ears again this |
| 1:05.9 | Monday morning and today we are talking about emotional detachment. Emotional detachment might sound like a slightly weird episode heading because |
| 1:18.4 | when I first came across the phrase there was part of me that thought is emotional detachment just |
| 1:24.5 | emotional unavailability so that feeling that so many of us are accustomed to that we |
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