ShrinkChicks
By Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT and Emmalee Bierly, LMFT
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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.
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The Cost of Keeping Everyone Happy
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Finding Self-Esteem & Self-Confidence
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Why Is It So Hard to Let People In?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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The Friendship Episode
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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How Not to Become Your Parents
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Marriage Advice We Actually Believe In
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Can You Heal From Betrayal?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Ask Em Anything: Nikki’s Mom-to-Be Edition
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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When Opposite Feelings Coexist
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Rewind: What It Means to be a Highly Sensitive Person
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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What If I Made the Wrong Decision?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Is This My Inner Child or My Adult Self?
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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When You’re Changing and Your Partner Isn’t
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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When Therapy Isn’t Working (Or So It Seems)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The Pressure to be "Chill"
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How Boundaries Impact Our Relationships
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Emmalee's Birth Story
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Rewind: How to Stop Taking Sh*t Personally
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Why Rejection is SO Painful
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Self-Sabotage & Why We Do It
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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What's My Conflict Language?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Confronting Your Conflict Avoidance
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Why Do We Chase Happiness?
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Rewind: Forgiveness, Anger & Resentment
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May 26, 2025 |
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Meeting New Versions of Ourselves
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May 19, 2025 |
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The Comparison Trap: Why Do We Do It?
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May 12, 2025 |
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Why Is It So Hard to Say No?
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May 05, 2025 |
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Navigating Differences Within Your Relationship
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Sometimes The Goal is Just Survival
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Who You Think You “Should” Be vs. Who You Are
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Why Do We Get Authenticity Hangovers?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Avoidance Does Not Equal Healing
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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What Do We Do About Burnout?
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The Fear of Being "Too Much"
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Why Is Dating So Terrible?
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Just Two Therapists with ADHD
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Green Flags: The Underrated Signs of a Healthy Partnership
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Balancing Family Dynamics AND Your Relationship
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Is it Me? Recognizing Your Patterns in Your Relationship
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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What is High Functioning Codependency?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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How Do I Build Self-Trust?
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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When Birth Doesn't Go as Planned
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Questions You’re Too Scared To Ask Your Therapist
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Rewind: Inner Child Work & Wounds
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Surviving The Holiday Season (Continued)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Surviving the Holiday Season
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Riding The Waves of Grief
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Rewind: Decision Paralysis
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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The Relationship Between Spite & Motivation
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Normalizing Intrusive Thoughts
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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What Does Masculinity Really Mean?
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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The Difference Between Being Kind vs. Being Walked All Over
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Boundaries with Emotionally Immature People
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Life Lessons That Changed Our Perspective
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Is It Possible to Release Control?
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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How to Take Responsibility for Your Emotions
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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How to Respond and Not React
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Building Self-Confidence: Don't Believe Everything You Think
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Should I Speak Up or Bite My Tongue?
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Rewind: People In Our Lives Who Aren't "Doing The Work"
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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The Line Between Empathy and Enabling
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Inside Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Help! I'm Anxious About My Anxiety
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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A New Perspective on Death & Dying
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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The Impact of Your Core Wounds on Your Friendships
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Making New Friends (& Nurturing Old Ones) in Adulthood
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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The Things We're Working On
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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What Does "Trauma" Really Mean?
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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The Role Stress Plays in Our Relationships
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Our 10 Year Anniversary Episode!
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Coping with Information Overload
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Unlearning Societal Expectations
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Emmalee's Fertility Journey
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Rewind: Change is F*cking Scary
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May 27, 2024 |
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Can Love Ever Really Be Unconditional?
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May 20, 2024 |
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Getting Comfortable(ish) with Discomfort
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May 13, 2024 |
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You Are Not Responsible for Other People's Emotions
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May 06, 2024 |
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Creating a Lasting Sexual Connection with Emily Nagoski, PhD.
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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What Should You Talk About Before Getting Married?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Separating Yourself From Your Story
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Confronting Confrontation
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Avoiding Change? How to Get "Unstuck"
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Exploring Gender Identity with Alexander Stefanini
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Em & Jen Fall Apart
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Your Guide to Setting Boundaries
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Answering Your Sex, Libido & Desire Questions
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Finding the Gray Area in Black & White Thinking
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Is Everyone Experiencing Imposter Syndrome?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Opposites Attract But Do They Work?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Feeling Guilty About Feeling Guilty
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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When Family Dynamics Shift & Change in Adulthood
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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What It Means to be a Highly Sensitive Person
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Understanding Passive Aggressive Behavior
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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How Do I Set Boundaries with Myself?
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Dear Em & Jen: Listener Advice (Continued)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Your Holiday Pep Talk
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Dear Em & Jen: Listener Advice
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Navigating Long-Term Friendships
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Why is the Mother-Daughter Relationship So Complex?
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Rewind: Why Are In-Laws So Triggering?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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How to Know When to Stay or Go
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Resentment, The Mental Load, & How They Intertwine
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How our Phones Impact our Mental Health
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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What's Normal Independence vs. Hyper-Independence?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Healing Your Childhood Wounds
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Getting Out of a Shame Spiral
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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What If I Make The Wrong Decision?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Not Everything is About You
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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How To Get Better with Confrontation
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Creating Your Chosen Family
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Rewind: Carrying The Mental Load
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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How Your History Alters Your Brain
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Improving Communication in Your Relationship
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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How to Break-Up with Your Therapist & More
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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How To Stop Taking Sh*t Personally
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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What To Do When Resentment Builds
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Why It's So Hard to Give Ourselves Compassion
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Navigating Complicated Relationships with Our Parents
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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It's Me, Hi, I'm the One with Anxiety
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Rewind: Jealousy is a Complex Emotion
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Boundaries 101 with Nedra Glover Tawwab
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Life Transitions and the Anxiety That Accompanies Them
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Pivoting When Things Don't Go As Planned
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Was I Parentified?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Exploring Internal Family Systems with Dr. Richard Schwartz
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May 29, 2023 |
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Getting Underneath Your Need to be Right
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May 22, 2023 |
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When Fear Gets in the Way
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May 15, 2023 |
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Finding Joy in the Routine
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May 08, 2023 |
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Is it a Reg Flag or Just Not a Good Fit?
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May 01, 2023 |
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Things We Want to Hold Onto From our Families
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Why is it So Hard to Stop Comparing?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Why We Crave External Validation
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Your Postpartum Questions Answered
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Self-Awareness Hell with Kaitlyn Bristowe
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Is It Normal for Attraction to Ebb and Flow?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Trying to Control the Uncontrollable
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Finding Success After Career Rejection
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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What if I'm the Problem?
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Decision Paralysis
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The Business Advice We Never Received
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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A Hard Conversation About Hard Conversations
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Rewind: WTF is Radical Acceptance?
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Should I Take a Social Media Break?
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Inner Child Work & Wounds
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Stressed About Being Stressed
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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What’s the Deal with Money & Shame?
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Rewind: How to Set Boundaries with Your Mother-in-Law & More
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Guilt Trips & In-Laws & Boundaries, Oh My!
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Processing & Healing from Sexual Trauma
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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When a Loved One is Struggling with Their Mental Health
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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An Interview with Em & Jen
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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How To Know What You Really Want
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Breaking Family Patterns
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Overthinking About Overthinking
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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It's Okay to be Clingy with Todd Baratz, LMHC
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Break-ups & Re-envisioning the Future
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Change is F*cking Scary
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Responding to Those Not "Doing the Work"
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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People in Our Lives Who Aren't "Doing The Work"
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Why Are Friendship Break-Ups So Painful?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Advice to Our Younger Selves
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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If Couples Therapy Isn't Working with Amelia Innis, LMFT
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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When Strangers Become Family
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Is There Anything That's TMI in Therapy?
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Can I Tell My Therapist I Use Cannabis?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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You Don't Have to Like Your In-Laws
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with Jenny Weinar, LCSW
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Let’s Talk Relationship Stages & Transitions
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Boundaries & Expectations with In-Laws
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Why Are In-Laws So Triggering?
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Breaking People Pleasing Patterns with Natalia Addona, LPCC
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Carrying The Mental Load
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Questions to Ask Before Getting Married with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Terry Real Wows "Us" Again
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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How To Make Up After a Fight
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May 30, 2022 |
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Setting Emotional Boundaries
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May 23, 2022 |
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How to Ask For What You Need
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May 16, 2022 |
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What is Energy Healing with JoAnne Hanson, LMFT
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May 09, 2022 |
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How to Handle Rejection
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May 02, 2022 |
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What to Expect in Couples Therapy
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Navigating Relationships Through Astrology with Natalie Levin
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Grieving Unmet Expectations
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Is There Truth to Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater? with Mac Stanley Cazeau, LMHC
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Know Yourself Grow Yourself Part Two
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Baby Mamas Talk Drama with Kail Lowry & Vee Rivera
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Jealousy is a Complex Emotion
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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WTF is Radical Acceptance?
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Our 100th MF Episode: Ask Us Anything
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Dysfunctional Family Roles ft. Encanto
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Does Birth Order Actually Matter?
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Body Image, Diet Culture, & a Ton of Bullsh*t
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Does Sibling Rivalry Ever End?
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Why Do We Lie?
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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How to Get More Comfortable Being Alone
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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An Inside Look at Becoming a Therapist
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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How to Set Boundaries with Your Mother-in-Law & More
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Your Sex Life Questions Answered with Vanessa & Xander Marin
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Escaping My Hetero Hell with Jason Abel
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Forgiveness, Anger & Resentment
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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NOvember with Dr. Lindsay Haston
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Em & Jen Explain Enmeshment
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Your Burning Boundary Questions Answered
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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The Return of Q & A
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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If You Want To, You Should with Jared Freid
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Career Transitions & Trusting Your Gut with Nikki Cox
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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The Power of Fierce Intimacy with Terry Real
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Exploring The Decision to be Childfree
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Personal Self vs. Professional Self
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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The Communication Skills We Didn't Learn in School
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Purity Culture Dropout with Erica Smith, M.Ed.
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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What To Do When The World Is On Fire
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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WTF is a Pelvic Floor with Gina Cunningham
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Being a Nurse is F*cking Hard with Katie Duke
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Feeling Our Feelings with Scout Sobel
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Social Media's Effect on Our Mental Health
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Parts of Ourselves that are Healed vs. The Parts that are Still Healing
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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How To Stay Connected To Friends Through Different Life Stages
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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The Myth of Magical Thinking
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Healing After NXIVM with India Oxenberg
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Expectations in Relationships
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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People Pleasing & Boundary Setting with Dr. Cassidy Freitas
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Can I Talk To My Therapist About This?
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Two Moms, One Donor, and 80 Siblings with Callie Fraser, MSS, LSW
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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How To Know When It's Time To Quit
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May 31, 2021 |
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Let's Talk About Sex with Dr. Kristen Mark
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May 24, 2021 |
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Growing Up Too Soon: Parentification
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May 17, 2021 |
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Shoulding All Over Ourselves
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May 03, 2021 |
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ShrinkChicks Trailer
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May 02, 2021 |
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Coping with Grief, Transitions and New Beginnings
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Making Mindfulness More Accessible with Dr. Jennifer Wolkin
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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WTF is Self-Compassion?
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Let's Talk About Psychiatric Medication
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Anxiety: Beyond the Buzzword with Amber Benziger
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Dating Anxiety: Why We Struggle to be Our Authentic Selves with Candice Jalili
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Reflecting on a Year of Transitions
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Coping with a Chronic Illness with Tara Giorgio
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Addressing the Fear of Being Single Forever with Mary Chen, LMFT
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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“Sometimes Therapy is Awkward” with Nicole Arzt, LMFT
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Why TF is Money So Overwhelming with Amanda Clayman
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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WTF is Reparenting and Inner Child Work with Kind Minds Therapy
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Hypnosis Is More Than a Swinging Pocket Watch with Juliet Obodo, Master Hypnotherapist & NLP Master Practitioner
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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The Cycle of Abuse in Relationships with Kaitlyn Peabody, LMFT
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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The Psychology of Cults with Rachel Bernstein, LMFT
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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The One Where Emmalee Has A Miscarriage
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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The Things That You Learn to Survive Are Not Always the Things That Help You Thrive
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Challenging the 'Shoulds' of Life with Caroline Dooner, author of The F*ck It Diet!
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Navigating Thanksgiving Dynamics in 2020 with Brenna from Real Fckn Talk
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Destigmatizing Cannabis Consumption and Conversation with Nicole aka Dope Kitchen
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Narcissistic Traits vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Dr. Jaime Zuckerman
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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The Choice to be Childfree and the Myths of Motherhood Part 2
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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The Choice to be Childfree and the Myths of Motherhood
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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What Is Attachment Theory? How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Romantic Relationships
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Fights with Friends
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Trusting Your Gut with Cameron Rogers AKA The Freckled Foodie
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Strained Family Relationships
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Showing Up Imperfectly with Danielle Maltby
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Resiliency with Alanna Gardner, MFT
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Family Dynamics Part 3
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Family Dynamics Part 2
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Family Dynamics Part 1
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Reality TV Aftermath with Julia Rae
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Modern Matchmaking with Erika Kaplan
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Joyful Movement and Intuitive Eating with Helen Phelan
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Ask the ShrinkChicks - June
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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The Origin of ShrinkChicks
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Fears and Careers (with Ash Ambirge)
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May 26, 2020 |
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Sex and Stress (with Emily Nagoski)
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May 18, 2020 |
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Explaining Your Brain (with Krista Rompolski)
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May 11, 2020 |
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Ask the ShrinkChicks - April, Part 2
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May 04, 2020 |
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Ask the ShrinkChicks - April, Part 1
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Is Childfree the Way to Be? (with Gina Tomaine, Health and Wellness Editor for Philly Mag)
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Conscious Coping: Navigating Life Transitions With COVID-19
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Living Whole (with Erin Morrissey)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Are You the Toxic One?
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Firsthand Fertility (with Carolyn Satlow)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Getting Unstuck (with Kaitlyn Peabody, MFT)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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D.I.Y. Breakup (with Devin Allen and Jess Heilwell)
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Eat Your Favorite Food (with Natalie Loschiavo, RD)
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Burn Out
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Therapy 101
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Single and Ready...To Be Single
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Uncomplicating Relationships Part 3 (Bonus Episode)
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Uncomplicating Relationships Part 2
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Uncomplicating Relationships Part 1
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Balancing the Bullshit
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Oct 11, 2019 |