Episode 8- Emotional Adulting

Tell Me About Your Mother

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Evan, Melissa, and Eli explore the ingrained familial contracts, the power of renegotiation, and seeking internal wellness. Evan explores the ways in which his dysfunctional family system has impacted his toxicity tolerance and his newly formed self-gatekeeping. Speaking about the holiday season also generated discussions related to:

• Self-help language perceived as condescension in arguments
• Bodybuilding/body dysmorphia
• Is your roommate/spouse actually upset about the dishes?
• Who the hell standardized perfection?
• Skill-based therapy serving as groundwork for exploring a deeper therapeutic process
• Evan decides to read an apologetic email from his mother
• Emotional adult mind vs. child mind
• Family of origin relational dynamics serving as the CPU for romantic and platonic relationships
• Internal wellness contrasted with familial dysfunction
• Renegotiating familial contracts
• Defining/Orienting Point A and Point B

Please join us weekly as Tell Me About Your Mother discusses topics relevant to pursuing excellence in psychotherapy. Melissa Martin, Eli Branscombe, and Evan Miller are three licensed psychotherapists who have come together for peer supervision and in doing so, created Tell Me About Your Mother so that we may share our passion for psychotherapy with our fellow healers.

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