S7, Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Blind Spots - How does unconscious bias affect us? Why do we need perspective? What's your blind spot profile?
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Which also means there's no time to lose and so this week we take a deep dive into the work Emma has been developing around her unique model of "blind spot therapy", and which she's sharing with us all in her upcoming book, What Am I Missing?
If you have ever wondered why you end up repeating patterns of unhealthly behaviour, in the wrong relationships, caught up in conflict in your family or held back at work, you might be acting out of a blind spot - an area of low or no awareness that means you can't see things clearly and end up tripping over the same obstacles in life.
Emma has developed a brand new psychological theory to translate ideas of unconscious bias, learned behaviours and cultural conditioning into four clear and relatable blind spot profiles:
Listen along this week and find out whether you might be:
THE GLADIATOR, determined but missing trust
THE BRIDGE, easy-going but missing authenticity
THE HUSTLER, charming but missing self-worth
Or THE ROCK, resilient but missing boundaries
Elizabeth explores how being a Bridge/Hustler, or a "Bristle" as we affectionately like to call her, has affected her in the past and Emma explains how her inner Rock led her to become a therapist.
Published by Penguin on 4th April, What Am I Missing? will teach you how to overcome the blind spots that are holding you back and explain why, when they said "what you don't know won't hurt you", they couldn't have been more wrong!
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And if you do pre-order a hardback, audiobook or e-book edition from any UK retailer, you can also enter a competition to win an online 1:1 Blind Spot Therapy Session with Emma! Just visit https://penguinrandomhouse.eu.research.net/r/WhatAmIMissingComp to enter your details.
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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp.
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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. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Elizabeth Day, author and podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:17.0 | That's me. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, I'm Emmer Reed Terrell and I'm a psychotherapist. |
| 0:21.0 | In my private practice I talk to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their sense of well-being. |
| 0:30.0 | And as her BFF, I get all the benefit of her expertise and wisdom for free. |
| 0:35.2 | Emma makes me feel better about life, but also helps me to understand why I act the way I do. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh, thanks, Liz. She's also one of the only people allowed to call me Liz. |
| 0:46.0 | We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we chat about what's on our minds to get deeper |
| 0:55.8 | in our minds. Two best friends, one therapist, no filter. That's best friend therapy. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello and welcome back to Best Friend Therapy. |
| 1:06.0 | Maybe it's not welcome back. |
| 1:08.0 | Maybe you're a first time listener, in which case, |
| 1:10.0 | welcome, we're thrilled to have you. |
| 1:12.0 | Please come back. And today is a very, very exciting |
| 1:16.8 | episode for me, because I get to interview my favorite person in the world, |
| 1:23.0 | about her, |
| 1:25.0 | her, |
| 1:28.0 | about her fantastic forthcoming new book called What Am I Missing by Emory Terrell and the subtitle |
| 1:37.0 | and the subtitle... |
| 1:38.0 | It's not my husband who's the other joint equal. It's called What Am I Missing? |
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