ShrinkChicks

This week, Emmalee and Jen break down the term parentification with insight, awareness, and action. They discuss how one becomes parentified, common patterns it can lead to in adulthood, and what actions we can start to take to heal. They also introduce a new segment called "Dear Jen & Em" where they answer a listener question in depth! 

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This week, Emmalee and Jen are joined by one of their wonderful @thetherapygrp therapists, Nicole Lewis, LMFT to demystify couples therapy. Nicole works primarily with couples and gives us insight into what really goes on in the room. Does the therapist take sides? Can the therapist keep one partner's secret from the other? Can they give direct advice like: "you should break-up"? Tune in to find out! 

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Emmalee and Jen are back with season three of ShrinkChicks! This week, they discuss the pressure we can put on ourselves to follow the “shoulds” of life. From going to college, to getting married, to having children, to wanting to have children, to productivity, to finding a “dream” job, to hitting specific life milestones at specific ages - there is a lot to unpack. Em and Jen reflect on the "shoulds" they personally struggle with, and talk through ways to begin challenging them. 

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In the final episode of Season 2, Emmalee and Jen reflect on their changes throughout the past 23 episodes and discuss how to cope with transitions and endings. They also have a big announcement! Thank you so much for sticking with us through our second season and we hope to see you in Season 3!

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Mindfulness, while it has taken off in popularity recently, can still be a vague and intimidating buzzword. This week, Emmalee and Jen are joined by psychologist, speaker, and author Dr. Jennifer Wolkin to make living mindfully less of an abstract and more of a concrete tool to aid you on your mental health journey.

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The most difficult and, for better or worse, the most important relationship we have is always going to be our relationship with ourselves. In a world full of self-care, self-love, self-esteem, and a thousand other buzzwords, self-compassion is an often neglected part of how we validate our own experiences. This week, Emmalee and Jen explore how we can apply it to our lives and answer the question, exactly WTF is self-compassion?

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After feeling a little burnt out, Emmalee and Jen decided to return to their roots for an episode about a topic near and dear to their hearts and the premise of ShrinkChicks: how to deal with the stigma against psychiatric medication.

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When addressing our anxiety, sometimes its effect is so pervasive that we lose sight of it all together. This week, Emmalee and Jen ground the topic, taking a look at the real-world conditions that foster anxiety in our lives and moving the conversation beyond the buzzword, to a place of self-understanding and practical solutions. Joining them is fellow therapist Amber Benziger, MS, LPC, CCTP and creator of The Anxiety Lab, an anxiety-management program.

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This week, Emmalee and Jen are joined by journalist, dating expert, and author, Candice Jalili. Together, they talk dating during COVID, college, and beyond. Candace, the author of Just Send The Text, is the senior sex & dating writer at Elite Daily. Her work can be regularly found in publications like Cosmopolitan, The Cut, and Time, and her debut book Just Send The Text can be found wherever books are sold! 

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