ShrinkChicks

By Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT and Emmalee Bierly, LMFT

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Episodes: 210

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Emmalee Bierly, LMFT and Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT, owners and co-founders of The Therapy Group (@thetherapygrp), bring you the ShrinkChicks Podcast. ShrinkChicks is on a mission to make therapy and therapeutic topics more relatable and accessible. Each Monday, Emmalee and Jen will explore different mental health topics and invite you to sit in on their insight, humor, and knowledge, leaving the psychobabble behind.

Episode Date
Separating Yourself From Your Story
Apr 15, 2024
Confronting Confrontation
Apr 08, 2024
Avoiding Change? How to Get "Unstuck"
Apr 01, 2024
Exploring Gender Identity with Alexander Stefanini
Mar 25, 2024
Em & Jen Fall Apart
Mar 18, 2024
Your Guide to Setting Boundaries
Mar 11, 2024
Answering Your Sex, Libido & Desire Questions
Mar 04, 2024
Finding the Gray Area in Black & White Thinking
Feb 26, 2024
Is Everyone Experiencing Imposter Syndrome?
Feb 19, 2024
Opposites Attract But Do They Work?
Feb 12, 2024
Feeling Guilty About Feeling Guilty
Feb 05, 2024
When Family Dynamics Shift & Change in Adulthood
Jan 29, 2024
What It Means to be a Highly Sensitive Person
Jan 22, 2024
Understanding Passive Aggressive Behavior
Jan 15, 2024
How Do I Set Boundaries with Myself?
Jan 08, 2024
Dear Em & Jen: Listener Advice (Continued)
Jan 01, 2024
Your Holiday Pep Talk
Dec 18, 2023
Dear Em & Jen: Listener Advice
Dec 11, 2023
Navigating Long-Term Friendships
Dec 04, 2023
Why is the Mother-Daughter Relationship So Complex?
Nov 27, 2023
Rewind: Why Are In-Laws So Triggering?
Nov 20, 2023
How to Know When to Stay or Go
Nov 13, 2023
Resentment, The Mental Load, & How They Intertwine
Nov 06, 2023
How our Phones Impact our Mental Health
Oct 30, 2023
What's Normal Independence vs. Hyper-Independence?
Oct 23, 2023
Healing Your Childhood Wounds
Oct 16, 2023
Getting Out of a Shame Spiral
Oct 09, 2023
What If I Make The Wrong Decision?
Oct 02, 2023
Not Everything is About You
Sep 25, 2023
How To Get Better with Confrontation
Sep 18, 2023
Creating Your Chosen Family
Sep 11, 2023
Rewind: Carrying The Mental Load
Sep 04, 2023
How Your History Alters Your Brain
Aug 28, 2023
Improving Communication in Your Relationship
Aug 21, 2023
How to Break-Up with Your Therapist & More
Aug 14, 2023
How To Stop Taking Sh*t Personally
Aug 07, 2023
What To Do When Resentment Builds
Jul 31, 2023
Why It's So Hard to Give Ourselves Compassion
Jul 24, 2023
Navigating Complicated Relationships with Our Parents
Jul 17, 2023
It's Me, Hi, I'm the One with Anxiety
Jul 10, 2023
Rewind: Jealousy is a Complex Emotion
Jul 03, 2023
Boundaries 101 with Nedra Glover Tawwab
Jun 26, 2023
Life Transitions and the Anxiety That Accompanies Them
Jun 19, 2023
Pivoting When Things Don't Go As Planned
Jun 12, 2023
Was I Parentified?
Jun 05, 2023
Exploring Internal Family Systems with Dr. Richard Schwartz
May 29, 2023
Getting Underneath Your Need to be Right
May 22, 2023
When Fear Gets in the Way
May 15, 2023
Finding Joy in the Routine
May 08, 2023
Is it a Reg Flag or Just Not a Good Fit?
May 01, 2023
Things We Want to Hold Onto From our Families
Apr 24, 2023
Why is it So Hard to Stop Comparing?
Apr 17, 2023
Why We Crave External Validation
Apr 10, 2023
Your Postpartum Questions Answered
Apr 03, 2023
Self-Awareness Hell with Kaitlyn Bristowe
Mar 27, 2023
Is It Normal for Attraction to Ebb and Flow?
Mar 20, 2023
Trying to Control the Uncontrollable
Mar 13, 2023
Finding Success After Career Rejection
Mar 06, 2023
What if I'm the Problem?
Feb 27, 2023
Decision Paralysis
Feb 20, 2023
The Business Advice We Never Received
Feb 13, 2023
A Hard Conversation About Hard Conversations
Feb 06, 2023
Rewind: WTF is Radical Acceptance?
Jan 30, 2023
Should I Take a Social Media Break?
Jan 23, 2023
Inner Child Work & Wounds
Jan 16, 2023
Stressed About Being Stressed
Jan 09, 2023
What’s the Deal with Money & Shame?
Jan 02, 2023
Rewind: How to Set Boundaries with Your Mother-in-Law & More
Dec 26, 2022
Guilt Trips & In-Laws & Boundaries, Oh My!
Dec 19, 2022
Processing & Healing from Sexual Trauma
Dec 12, 2022
When a Loved One is Struggling with Their Mental Health
Dec 05, 2022
An Interview with Em & Jen
Nov 28, 2022
How To Know What You Really Want
Nov 07, 2022
Breaking Family Patterns
Oct 31, 2022
Overthinking About Overthinking
Oct 24, 2022
It's Okay to be Clingy with Todd Baratz, LMHC
Oct 17, 2022
Break-ups & Re-envisioning the Future
Oct 10, 2022
Change is F*cking Scary
Oct 03, 2022
Responding to Those Not "Doing the Work"
Sep 26, 2022
People in Our Lives Who Aren't "Doing The Work"
Sep 19, 2022
Why Are Friendship Break-Ups So Painful?
Sep 12, 2022
Advice to Our Younger Selves
Sep 05, 2022
If Couples Therapy Isn't Working with Amelia Innis, LMFT
Aug 29, 2022
When Strangers Become Family
Aug 22, 2022
Is There Anything That's TMI in Therapy?
Aug 15, 2022
Can I Tell My Therapist I Use Cannabis?
Aug 08, 2022
You Don't Have to Like Your In-Laws
Aug 01, 2022
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with Jenny Weinar, LCSW
Jul 25, 2022
Let’s Talk Relationship Stages & Transitions
Jul 18, 2022
Boundaries & Expectations with In-Laws
Jul 11, 2022
Why Are In-Laws So Triggering?
Jul 04, 2022
Breaking People Pleasing Patterns with Natalia Addona, LPCC
Jun 27, 2022
Carrying The Mental Load
Jun 20, 2022
Questions to Ask Before Getting Married with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Jun 13, 2022
Terry Real Wows "Us" Again
Jun 06, 2022
How To Make Up After a Fight
May 30, 2022
Setting Emotional Boundaries
May 23, 2022
How to Ask For What You Need
May 16, 2022
What is Energy Healing with JoAnne Hanson, LMFT
May 09, 2022
How to Handle Rejection
May 02, 2022
What to Expect in Couples Therapy
Apr 25, 2022
Navigating Relationships Through Astrology with Natalie Levin
Apr 18, 2022
Grieving Unmet Expectations
Apr 11, 2022
Is There Truth to Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater? with Mac Stanley Cazeau, LMHC
Apr 04, 2022
Know Yourself Grow Yourself Part Two
Mar 28, 2022
Baby Mamas Talk Drama with Kail Lowry & Vee Rivera
Mar 21, 2022
Jealousy is a Complex Emotion
Mar 14, 2022
Hustle Culture & Burnout with Lydia (Tola) Lawson, MFT
Mar 07, 2022
WTF is Radical Acceptance?
Feb 28, 2022
Our 100th MF Episode: Ask Us Anything
Feb 21, 2022
Dysfunctional Family Roles ft. Encanto
Feb 14, 2022
Does Birth Order Actually Matter?
Feb 07, 2022
Body Image, Diet Culture, & a Ton of Bullsh*t
Jan 31, 2022
Does Sibling Rivalry Ever End?
Jan 24, 2022
Why Do We Lie?
Jan 17, 2022
How to Get More Comfortable Being Alone
Jan 10, 2022
An Inside Look at Becoming a Therapist
Jan 03, 2022
How to Set Boundaries with Your Mother-in-Law & More
Dec 20, 2021
Your Sex Life Questions Answered with Vanessa & Xander Marin
Dec 13, 2021
Escaping My Hetero Hell with Jason Abel
Dec 06, 2021
Forgiveness, Anger & Resentment
Nov 29, 2021
NOvember with Dr. Lindsay Haston
Nov 22, 2021
Em & Jen Explain Enmeshment
Nov 15, 2021
Your Burning Boundary Questions Answered
Nov 08, 2021
The Return of Q & A
Nov 01, 2021
If You Want To, You Should with Jared Freid
Oct 25, 2021
Career Transitions & Trusting Your Gut with Nikki Cox
Oct 18, 2021
The Power of Fierce Intimacy with Terry Real
Oct 11, 2021
Exploring The Decision to be Childfree
Oct 04, 2021
Personal Self vs. Professional Self
Sep 27, 2021
The Communication Skills We Didn't Learn in School
Sep 20, 2021
Purity Culture Dropout with Erica Smith, M.Ed.
Sep 13, 2021
What To Do When The World Is On Fire
Sep 06, 2021
WTF is a Pelvic Floor with Gina Cunningham
Aug 30, 2021
Being a Nurse is F*cking Hard with Katie Duke
Aug 23, 2021
Feeling Our Feelings with Scout Sobel
Aug 16, 2021
Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves
Aug 09, 2021
Social Media's Effect on Our Mental Health
Aug 02, 2021
Parts of Ourselves that are Healed vs. The Parts that are Still Healing
Jul 26, 2021
How To Stay Connected To Friends Through Different Life Stages
Jul 19, 2021
The Myth of Magical Thinking
Jul 12, 2021
Healing After NXIVM with India Oxenberg
Jul 05, 2021
Expectations in Relationships
Jun 28, 2021
People Pleasing & Boundary Setting with Dr. Cassidy Freitas
Jun 21, 2021
Can I Talk To My Therapist About This?
Jun 14, 2021
Two Moms, One Donor, and 80 Siblings with Callie Fraser, MSS, LSW
Jun 07, 2021
How To Know When It's Time To Quit
May 31, 2021
Let's Talk About Sex with Dr. Kristen Mark
May 24, 2021
Growing Up Too Soon: Parentification
May 17, 2021
Demystifying Couples Therapy with Nicole Lewis, LMFT
May 10, 2021
Shoulding All Over Ourselves
May 03, 2021
ShrinkChicks Trailer
May 02, 2021
Coping with Grief, Transitions and New Beginnings
Apr 05, 2021
Making Mindfulness More Accessible with Dr. Jennifer Wolkin
Mar 29, 2021
WTF is Self-Compassion?
Mar 22, 2021
Let's Talk About Psychiatric Medication
Mar 15, 2021
Anxiety: Beyond the Buzzword with Amber Benziger
Mar 08, 2021
Dating Anxiety: Why We Struggle to be Our Authentic Selves with Candice Jalili
Feb 28, 2021
Reflecting on a Year of Transitions
Feb 22, 2021
Coping with a Chronic Illness with Tara Giorgio
Feb 15, 2021
Addressing the Fear of Being Single Forever with Mary Chen, LMFT
Feb 08, 2021
“Sometimes Therapy is Awkward” with Nicole Arzt, LMFT
Feb 01, 2021
Why TF is Money So Overwhelming with Amanda Clayman
Jan 25, 2021
WTF is Reparenting and Inner Child Work with Kind Minds Therapy
Jan 18, 2021
Hypnosis Is More Than a Swinging Pocket Watch with Juliet Obodo, Master Hypnotherapist & NLP Master Practitioner
Jan 11, 2021
The Cycle of Abuse in Relationships with Kaitlyn Peabody, LMFT
Dec 21, 2020
The Psychology of Cults with Rachel Bernstein, LMFT
Dec 14, 2020
The One Where Emmalee Has A Miscarriage
Dec 07, 2020
The Things That You Learn to Survive Are Not Always the Things That Help You Thrive
Nov 30, 2020
Challenging the 'Shoulds' of Life with Caroline Dooner, author of The F*ck It Diet!
Nov 23, 2020
Navigating Thanksgiving Dynamics in 2020 with Brenna from Real Fckn Talk
Nov 16, 2020
Destigmatizing Cannabis Consumption and Conversation with Nicole aka Dope Kitchen
Nov 09, 2020
Narcissistic Traits vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Dr. Jaime Zuckerman
Nov 02, 2020
The Choice to be Childfree and the Myths of Motherhood Part 2
Oct 26, 2020
The Choice to be Childfree and the Myths of Motherhood
Oct 19, 2020
What Is Attachment Theory? How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Romantic Relationships
Oct 12, 2020
Fights with Friends
Sep 21, 2020
Trusting Your Gut with Cameron Rogers AKA The Freckled Foodie
Sep 14, 2020
Strained Family Relationships
Sep 07, 2020
Showing Up Imperfectly with Danielle Maltby
Aug 31, 2020
Resiliency with Alanna Gardner, MFT
Aug 24, 2020
Family Dynamics Part 3
Aug 18, 2020
Family Dynamics Part 2
Aug 10, 2020
Family Dynamics Part 1
Aug 03, 2020
Reality TV Aftermath with Julia Rae
Jul 27, 2020
Modern Matchmaking with Erika Kaplan
Jul 20, 2020
Joyful Movement and Intuitive Eating with Helen Phelan
Jul 13, 2020
Ask the ShrinkChicks - June
Jun 30, 2020
The Origin of ShrinkChicks
Jun 15, 2020
Fears and Careers (with Ash Ambirge)
May 26, 2020
Sex and Stress (with Emily Nagoski)
May 18, 2020
Explaining Your Brain (with Krista Rompolski)
May 11, 2020
Ask the ShrinkChicks - April, Part 2
May 04, 2020
Ask the ShrinkChicks - April, Part 1
Apr 20, 2020
Is Childfree the Way to Be? (with Gina Tomaine, Health and Wellness Editor for Philly Mag)
Apr 13, 2020
Conscious Coping: Navigating Life Transitions With COVID-19
Mar 23, 2020
Living Whole (with Erin Morrissey)
Mar 16, 2020
Are You the Toxic One?
Mar 09, 2020
Firsthand Fertility (with Carolyn Satlow)
Feb 24, 2020
Getting Unstuck (with Kaitlyn Peabody, MFT)
Feb 17, 2020
D.I.Y. Breakup (with Devin Allen and Jess Heilwell)
Feb 03, 2020
Eat Your Favorite Food (with Natalie Loschiavo, RD)
Jan 27, 2020
Burn Out
Jan 20, 2020
Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
Jan 06, 2020
Therapy 101
Dec 09, 2019
Single and Ready...To Be Single
Dec 02, 2019
Uncomplicating Relationships Part 3 (Bonus Episode)
Nov 18, 2019
Uncomplicating Relationships Part 2
Nov 08, 2019
Uncomplicating Relationships Part 1
Oct 23, 2019
Balancing the Bullshit
Oct 11, 2019