On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen give a nod to Taylor Swift and focus on the topic: "it's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me" or in other words, what if I'm the problem? They discuss some signs to look inward about certain patterns of behavior, releasing control, how to work on challenging your thoughts and not letting them take over, cutting people off and avoidance, the struggle of keeping promises to yourself, and why boundaries are not personal. Plus a great example from...
Feb 27, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are validating the various challenges that can come when making decisions - both big and small. They talk through what makes us freeze when making decisions, the abundance of choices we have these days, regret, people pleasing, the ability to see things from all sides, different fears behind making decisions, questions for introspection into your decision-making process, and working to make decisions without external validation. They answer your questions a...
Feb 20, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen tell us about their origin story! How they met, why they decided to start a private practice, their lack of a business plan, the mistakes they made along the way, and some of the hardships they faced together. Then they are joined by the co-hosts of the HERself Podcast, business coaches Amy Kiefer and Abby Green! The four of them sit down to discuss going into business with a friend. They address topics like hard conversations to have before starting a busi...
Feb 13, 2023•58 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen help us approach a topic many of us avoid: having hard conversations. Whether with a family member, partner, friend, or coworker, confrontation is challenging! Em and Jen discuss where to start when having these conversations (and their #1 tips in doing so), how each of them approaches hard conversations in their lives, and the importance of speaking up when something is bothering you. They then answer your questions like: how to find the right time, how to...
Feb 06, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 6
This week on ShrinkChicks, we are taking you back to our most popular episode of 2022: WTF is Radical Acceptance? Something Em & Jen are asked every time they do a Q&A is: "how do I not feel x, y, or z emotion?" Radical acceptance is a skill that they do a deep dive into in this episode, to help us work towards accepting unpleasant emotions rather than avoiding them. Emmalee and Jen explain the term "Radical Acceptance" which comes from a therapeutic modality called DBT (Dialectical Beha...
Jan 30, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 5
On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen share their experiences of taking an intentional break from social media. They discuss how the break affected each of them and their relationships with social media in general. They then go on to answer your questions about the reality of a social media break, the FOMO that can stop you from taking a break, comparison on social media, accepting that you may miss something while you're off, how social media affects you physically and emotionally...
Jan 23, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 4
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen explain WTF Inner Child work actually entails! They discuss inner child wounds vs. the work we can do to heal them, signs you might want to start doing this work, paying attention to our triggers, and what it means to reparent your inner child. They talk about how we all adapted to our environments as children and how some of the survival tactics we used back then might not be serving us now. Emmalee and Jen share the inner child work they've personally...
Jan 16, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking all things stress: stress about being stressed, stress management, stress reduction, and the different kinds of stress. They share the skills we can work on to manage our stress, talk about their first experiences with stress, explain how they handle stress now, and dive into why certain kinds of stress are not always bad (hint: procrastination). Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about work/life stress, how to notice stress, and explaining s...
Jan 09, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome back to Season 4 of ShrinkChicks! On today's episode, Emmalee and Jen sit down with Tori Dunlap, the amazing woman behind the social media accounts HerFirst100k! Tori is a globally-recognized personal finance educator, podcast host, social media star, and author. They start off the conversation by learning about Tori’s story and how she got started as a financial educator. Emmalee and Jen then ask Tori your questions about guilt and shame surrounding finances and debt, why it can be so h...
Jan 02, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Today on ShrinkChicks, we are taking a break from a new episode to spend the holidays practicing what we preach, but didn't want to leave you all hanging! So we're re-releasing our most popular episode from this time last year: How to Set Boundaries with Your Mother-in-Law & More! In this episode, Emmalee and Jen dive into the topic of family dynamics and boundaries and how to navigate them during the Holiday season. Specifically, they discuss the difference of dynamics in our family of orig...
Dec 26, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 85
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are answering all of your family dynamics questions that can become especially pertinent over the Holiday season. They cover guilt trips from parents, competition between in-laws, feeling envy toward someone else's family, when people do not accept your boundaries, feeling like an "other" in your family, radical acceptance, grieving the relationships you hoped you would have, and so much more! Plus, a Dear Em & Jen about not inviting a close family ...
Dec 19, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 84
*Content Warning: sexual trauma, abuse* On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by the wonderful Dr. Holly Richmond who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Somatic Psychotherapist, Certified Sex Therapist, and author of the book Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex-Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life. Holly sits down with Em and Jen to answer your questions about processing and healing from sexual trauma. They discuss when the body keep...
Dec 12, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 83
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking about the challenges that can come when people in our lives - a friend, partner, family member - are struggling with their mental health. They dive right into your feedback and answer your questions about ways to suggest therapy to someone who is unwilling to try and the nuances that can exist, having hard conversations, setting firm boundaries, the importance of self-regulation, what to do when someone we care for starts isolating themselve...
Dec 05, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Today on ShrinkChicks, one of The Therapy Group's amazing clinicians, Vlada Rultenberg, LSW, is hosting and interviewing Emmalee and Jen! She is taking your questions, combined with a few of her own, and sitting down with Em & Jen to ask them anything and everything. We learn the one thing that people would be surprised to know about each of them, their mottos for life, when they realized they wanted to become therapists, if they ever wanted to quit, what careers they would want to be in if ...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 81
Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are answering your questions about silencing the outside noise and expectations to figure out what it is you really want when it comes to relationships, career path, having kids (or not), and other life decisions. They discuss how this relates to people pleasing, the difference between being a people pleaser and compromising, how to know when it's time to quit, getting in touch with your true wants and needs, societal and familial expectations, a Dear Em &a...
Nov 07, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 79
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking all about intergenerational patterns AKA the things that get passed down from generation to generation in our families of origin. They start the episode off by giving examples of intergenerational patterns and trauma and share some of the patterns that exist in both of their families. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions like, are divorce and cheating intergenerational patterns? Is anxiety being passed down inevitable? How do we process ang...
Oct 31, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 78
On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen sit down to talk about the cycle of overthinking, why we do it, and what we could be avoiding in doing so. Em and Jen both share personal scenarios in which they've engaged in overthinking and the tactics they've implemented to help with it. They answer your questions about overthinking social interactions, what it means to acknowledge and "feel" your feelings, predicting how others will react, worrying about situations that haven't happene...
Oct 24, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 77
Today Emmalee and Jen are joined by Todd Baratz, LMHC, the face behind one of their favorite Instagram accounts @yourdiagnonsense! Todd shares his humor and insight with Em and Jen as they answer your questions and discuss many topics like why attachment style isn't the be-all-end-all, the fundamental uncertainty of relationships, why being clingy gets such a bad rep, how we’re all striving for perfectionism that doesn’t exist, intergenerational trauma and not wanting to repeat certain family pa...
Oct 17, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 76
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen sit down to talk about the pain and challenges of romantic break-ups. They discuss their most challenging break-up stories, sitting in the deep pain of a break-up, breaking up with someone as a people pleaser, grieving the future we had envisioned, how long to wait before moving on, healing, and so much more. Tune in to gain insight, awareness and action! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE...
Oct 10, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 75
On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen talk all about change and why it can be so hard. They share how they each process change, individually, and why it works for them. They then discuss how to move through the fear of change, the loss of control that comes with change, why we need time to adjust to change, the fear of changing a good thing or disrupting the status quo, their most challenging personal life changes, why it is natural for us to miss the old versions of ourselves, the...
Oct 03, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 74
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen dive into part two of people in our lives who aren't "doing the work." They continue to answer listener questions such as how to enjoy these people, when is it "too much," and how to respond to manipulation. They discuss ultimatums and setting the hard boundary, how it can be so hard to receive what we've asked for, grieving the fact that some people in our lives may not change, how different relationships can fulfill us in different ways, and so much m...
Sep 26, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 73
On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen present part one of their two-part series about the people in our lives who aren't "doing the work." Whether that's your mom, partner, friend, sibling, dad, cousin, etc., they answer listener questions about the frustrations that can occur when it feels like you're the only one working on yourself in your interpersonal relationships. They discuss firm boundaries, being called "too sensitive," passive aggression, resentment and the emotions unde...
Sep 19, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 72
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen cover one of their most requested topics: friendship break-ups. They discuss why friendship break-ups hurt so much and the validity of that pain, ghosting in friendships and the lack of closure, friendship break-ups not being as normalized as romantic break-ups in our society, the fear around being truthful with our friends, the challenges of making friends as an adult, and so much more! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action. Check out ShrinkCh...
Sep 12, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Today's episode of ShrinkChicks is dedicated to advice for our younger selves. Emmalee and Jen share the advice they would give to their younger selves and also the advice written in by their audience. They start the episode by reminiscing on the early days of The Therapy Group and the amount of anxiety they had while building the business. They talk through how they've grown since then and the advice they had trouble hearing at the time. Emmalee and Jen discuss why they think we can also give t...
Sep 05, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 70
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amelia Innis, LMFT, one of their amazing clinicians at The Therapy Group. Amelia specializes in working with couples and shares her approach to couples therapy, which is rooted in honesty and direction. She discusses the importance of honesty in romantic relationships as well as the therapeutic relationship and why we can't expect our partners to "just know" what we need. Amelia is now offering Couples Intensives at The Therapy Group and s...
Aug 29, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 69
On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amy Crichton, LMFT, one of their wonderful therapists from The Therapy Group, and her brother, Josh Weaver! Josh and Amy share the incredible story of how they discovered they were siblings just about three years ago. Spoiler alert: our parents' generation did not anticipate DNA test kits being so accessible! Josh explains how he found out that the father who raised him was not his biological father via Ancestry.com, and Amy share...
Aug 22, 2022•50 min•Season 3Ep. 68
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen discuss a question they asked their Instagram followers: what do you hesitate to share with your therapist in therapy? The responses received were overwhelming, so they made an episode of it! Em and Jen anonymously share responses including: sex, masturbation, suicidal ideation, shame, drug and alcohol usage, not taking the therapist's advice, trauma, financial stress, and so much more! Tune in to find out why they believe nothing is "TMI" in therapy an...
Aug 15, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by one of their amazing clinicians, Colton Hott, PC! Colton shares his journey to becoming a therapist plus his experience working in the cannabis industry. He answers some of your questions like: can I tell my therapist I use cannabis, why can cannabis ease anxiety one time and heighten anxiety another time, what if you and your partner have different feelings on usage, cannabis, memory, and the research behind it, signs to look out for when it ...
Aug 08, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 66
On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen bring you the third and final part of the in-laws series! They start the episode off by discussing some DMs received from mothers-in-law about their daughters-in-law and shed some light on the roles we all play in this complicated dynamic. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about in-laws using guilt as a form of manipulation, what to do if you simply dislike your in-laws, expectations for vacations, being married to the "non-favorite" ch...
Aug 01, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 65
*Trigger Warning:* We discuss suicidal ideation in today's episode. If you are dealing with suicidal thoughts, please know that you're not alone. There are so many options and resources out there for you. Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Dial or Text 988 Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen have the pleasure of sitting down with Jenny Weinar, LCSW! Jenny is trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and works with Emmalee, individually, doing KAP treatments! Emmalee and Jenny discuss what ...
Jul 25, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 64
