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On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking all about anticipatory anxiety. They begin by explaining the different reasons and scenarios where we might experience anticipatory anxiety, along with what could trigger it for us. Emmalee and Jen share their own personal experiences with anticipatory anxiety and how it manifests for them. They help you to recognize anticipatory anxiety and share tangible coping skills to use when it becomes activated. Then, they discuss the line between preparing and over-preparing, fear that can develop around experiencing the fear, control and how it plays into anxiety, and how to work to change the relationship you have with anxiety. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: Fast forward to around 9:20 to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content.

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On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are thrilled to sit down with Alua Arthur! Alua is a speaker, an author, and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. The three of them discuss the often uncomfortable topic of death and how to get more comfortable with it so that it doesn't feel as overwhelming and scary. Emmalee and Jen start the episode off by finding out what exactly a death doula does. Then, they talk about anticipatory grief, death anxiety, common regrets people have at the end of their lives, the complex emotions that can come with grief, and so much more! The episode ends with Alua calling some BS. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS - There is no intro for today's episode - join us right away for the content!

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This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are digging deeper into our childhood wounds and exploring how they may affect our friendships today. They start the episode by explaining the four different common core wounds to help you identify yours. Then, they share which core wound they each most identify with and how Jen's wound can trigger Emmalee's and vice versa. They discuss how we can work on noticing these wounds and changing our reactions, processing the grief from a friendship break-up or transition, relational vulnerability vs. non-relational vulnerability, and so much more! The episode ends with a Dear Em and Jen question asking them about their favorite therapeutic modality. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: Fast forward to around 4 minutes into their convo to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content.

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Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking about the very under-discussed topic of friendships and the difficulties that exist as we try to make new friends and nurture old friendships in adulthood. They start the episode off by sharing some interesting statistics on friendships. Then, they give us a glimpse into what their friendship was like in the early stages and how they struggled to be vulnerable with one another. Em and Jen discuss competition in female friendships, friends in different life stages, the high stakes in making new friends as an adult, and so much more! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! And, come back next Monday for part two of this friendship series to learn about the core wounds that might be coming up in your friendships. PS: Fast forward to around 3:15 into their convo to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content.

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On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking about what they are working on personally and professionally. They want to continue to be vulnerable with you all and share their personal goals and struggles. In the first part of the episode, Emmalee and Jen share two different personal stories about having to pivot when it comes to either keeping or canceling plans. They then ask each other what they are working on overcoming in their own lives. Jen touches on staying present and setting emotional boundaries, while Emmalee touches on her guilt-proneness and getting better at saying "no." The episode ends with a Dear Em and Jen about envy of a younger sibling announcing her pregnancy before the older sibling feels ready to have kids. Tune in for some laughs, insight, awareness, and action! PS: There is no intro for today's episode - join us right away for the content!

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This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by the incredible Dr. Danica Harris! Danica is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, facilitator, presenter, and educator. She helps folks heal from attachment wounds, sexual trauma, emotional neglect, vicarious trauma, intergenerational and identity-based trauma, and work or academic trauma. Emmalee, Jen, and Danica start the episode off by defining complex trauma and how it differs from single-incident trauma. Then, they discuss what it means for trauma to be trapped in the body and tangible ways to release it, anger as Danica’s favorite emotion, and connecting with our inner child. Danica answers your questions about self-trust, why we tend to invalidate our own trauma, trauma comparison, the best therapeutic modalities for trauma work, and so much more. The episode ends with the two things Danica is calling BS on when it comes to trauma. You don’t want to miss this one!

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On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen sit down with one of their dear friends, fellow therapist, and talented author, Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT! Liz is the author of I Want This to Work and has a new book available for pre-order now: Til' Stress Do Us Part: How to Heal The #1 Issue in Our Relationships. Emmalee and Jen start the episode off by asking Liz where the inspiration to write her new book came from. Then, they discuss how to navigate stress within our relationships, regulating ourselves when feeling activated, why defending a family member over your partner can be detrimental to your relationship, tips on connecting with your partner when life feels crazy (skipping the typical therapeutic advice), and so much more! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: There is no intro for today's episode - join us right away for the content!

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This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are celebrating 10 years in business together by dedicating the episode to all that they've learned so far! They discuss their journey, the ways their lives have been enriched by one another, things they would change, hard decisions they had to make, and the transition away from pleasing people. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about what they've learned from one another, what they're most proud of the other person for, how they've changed as therapists, and their top 3 moments of vindication for any haters. They end the episode with their advice to new therapists and a Dear Em and Jen about the things that seemed like a good idea and turned out not to be. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: There is no intro for today's episode - join us right away for the content!

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On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are discussing the information overload we all experience on a daily basis and how to move toward more conscious consumption of media, the news, etc. They answer your questions about social media's role in the overwhelm, the "shoulds" and comparison culture, how to create boundaries with consumption, parenting social media accounts that make us feel like we're failing, social media therapists vs. social media "therapists," why seeing content on TikTok/Reels doesn't lead to lasting change, why it's so easy to believe what we read on the Internet, and so much more! The episode ends with a Dear Em and Jen about social media comparison as a new mom. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: Fast forward to around 5 minutes into their convo to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content.

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This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Kara Loewentheil, host of the internationally top-ranked podcast Unf*ck Your Brain and author of the new book Take Back Your Brain: How A Sexist Society Gets in Your Head and How to Get It Out. Kara shares tangible steps to change our thought patterns and address the "brain gap" so many of us experience when considering our conscious thoughts vs. societal expectations/conditioning. Kara answers questions about managing other people's opinions about us, connecting our worth to external factors, why positive thinking doesn't work, what society teaches us as women and how to start unlearning those lessons, and so much more! Tune in to hear what Kara is calling BS on and to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: There is no intro for today's episode - tune in right away for the content!

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