S* Your Therapist Reads

In this episode we discuss the book How We Heal and talk about why healing is a team sport, and the ethics of mental health professionals using their credentials to sell stuff (Marriage & Family Therapist Condoms, anyone?). Erica also shares her not-so-guilty pleasure. 

In this episode, we discuss Fair Play, and discuss what it means to gamify the mental load, whether you can solve the patriarchy in your own home, and why arguments about the dishes are not (usually) about the dishes at all.

In this episode, we discuss the recently published book, Heal Your Nervous System. We talk about recognizing and healing a dysregulated nervous system, how to spot a grift, and the merits of taking advice from people simply because they're hot. 

We do something a little different with this episode--we put two books into conversation with each other. Break the Cycle and Where I Belong both discuss intergenerational trauma, and we discuss the merits (and struggles) of healing your trauma on your own, representation and the myth of the model minority, and which book we felt was like a warm hug :) Also, if you're an MFT listening to this episode, you will also appreciate the shoutout to the genogram! 

In Episode 2 of SYTR, we discuss how Becoming a Citizen Therapist provides a framework for therapists who want to use their skills to help their communities outside the therapy room. *And* we talk about why everyone should read this book, not just therapists :) 

For our first episode, we're reading Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. We discuss if this book does what it sets out to do, talk about who we think it's for, and the nuances of healing parent-adult child relationships.