Emotional Flooding: Why You Shut Down Mid-Argument
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk all about emotional flooding and why you might shut down, go blank, or struggle to find your word...
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Emmalee Bierly, LMFT and Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT, owners and co-founders of The Therapy Group (@thetherapygrp), bring you the ShrinkChicks Podcast. ShrinkChicks is on a mission to make therap...
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20 of 335 episodesWhy AI Can’t Replace Human Connection with Mike Blanche
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen are joined by licensed clinical social worker and addiction expert Mike Blanche from Ethos Treatment t...
Mother-Daughter Relationships: Why Are They So Complicated?
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen dive into mother-daughter relationships and why they can bring up some of our biggest emotions, even w...
What Does It Mean to Practice Radical Acceptance?
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk all about radical acceptance, a core DBT skill that involves fully acknowledging reality as it is...
Rewind: Building Self-Confidence
This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are throwing it back to an episode from 2024, Building Self-Confidence. This was one of their top...
How to Cope With Emotionally Immature Family Relationships
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk all about emotionally immature parents and in-laws, the boundaries that can get blurry in family...
Navigating Mental Health Struggles in a Relationship
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about being the partner of someone struggling with mental health, or being the partner struggling...
Jealousy in Romantic Relationships & Beyond
This week on ShrinkChicks, we’re talking all about jealousy. Where does it actually come from, and what do you do with it? Your hosts dive i...
When Is It Time to Say Enough in a Relationship?
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen take on a common yet difficult relationship question: how do you know when it's time to stay and fight...
Why Therapy Works: Real Wins From the ShrinkChicks Community
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen celebrate the many ways therapy can change your life by sharing powerful stories and wins from the Shr...
Navigating Conversations Through Relationship Milestones
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about the hard conversations that come with every stage of a relationship and why they're never j...
How to Argue Without Ruining Your Relationship
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen dive into what it really means to fight fairly in relationships and how conflict can actually bring co...
Insecurities: Why They Keep You Stuck (and How to Move Forward)
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen unpack insecurities: where they come from, why everyone has them, and how they quietly shape our relat...
Rewind: Boundaries with Emotionally Immature People
On this rewind episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen welcome Nedra Glover Tawwab back to the podcast! Nedra is a licensed therapist, a Ne...
Sibling Relationships in Adulthood: Closeness, Conflict, and Boundaries
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about adult sibling relationships and why growing up in the same family doesn't always mean growi...
Are You Settling or Just Compromising in Your Relationship?
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen unpack the difference between compromise and settling in relationships, and why the line between them...
How Our Assumptions Keep Us Stuck
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about how assumptions can quietly keep us stuck in relationships, work, and everyday life. From a...
When Life Doesn’t Look the Way You Thought It Would
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about expectations versus reality and why life’s biggest moments often don’t feel the way we imag...
How to Build Adult Friendships
This week on ShrinkChicks, Em and Jen talk about making friends as an adult and why something that used to happen naturally can suddenly fee...
Rewind: How to Respond and Not React
On today's rewind episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen discuss what it actually looks like to respond, not react. They discuss the pract...