Dial Emma

Hello lovely listeners and welcome to a brand new series of Dial Emma!
There's a question that gets typed into phones more than almost any other relationship question - often late at night, often after a hard conversation.
How do I know if this relationship is right?
I've asked it myself. Most of us have. And after years of sitting across from couples and individuals in the therapy room, I've noticed something: people often walk in asking one question, and walk out realising they needed to ask a different one entirely.
That's the idea behind this new season of Dial Emma, named after my second book, What Am I Missing? The book grew out of watching clients circle the same obstacles, the same patterns, the same kinds of people, again and again, until they'd finally say: I don't get it. There must be something here I'm not seeing. This season asks that same question of the internet's biggest relationship dilemmas, one a week, each one run through a therapeutic lens.
This week's dilemma: A listener has been with her partner for six years. He's kind, dependable, trustworthy - everyone tells her she's lucky. But the butterflies are gone, she sometimes imagines other lives, and she can't shake the question: is nothing wrong the same as this is right? Is she settling?
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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Hi! It's me. This is the last bonus Voicenote Therapy episode of Dial Emma, combining my love of long voicenotes with therapeutic insights to create something new and, hopefully, helpful.
This week, I'm sitting with something I thought was about rest, but turns out to be about permission. That moment at the end of a long day when you finally sit down, and instead of resting, you think: what have I forgotten? What else should I do?
Why do we so often push rest to the bottom of the list, after everything and everyone else? How can we begin to recognise the subtle but important differences between 'stopping' and 'resting'? And why are so many of us keeping an invisible scoreboard, knowing that the game will never end?
A thought to sit with: "You are not a machine that occasionally deserves maintenance. Your wellbeing is part of the work, not something you squeeze in afterwards."
This week's practice: Rest without earning it first. Finish one thing less. Go to bed with a job still undone.
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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Hi! It's me. For the next four weeks, we're trying something a little different on Dial Emma - this is Voicenote Therapy, combining my love of long voicenotes with therapeutic insights to create something new and, hopefully, helpful.
Today, in episode two, we're exploring resilience. We're taught that resilience means toughening up, coping better, becoming stronger. But what if the problem was never you? What if you've simply been carrying too much, for too long?
A thought to sit with: "Perhaps you don't need another book about resilience. Perhaps you need permission to put something down."
This week's practice: Not becoming stronger. Becoming lighter.
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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Email: contact@dial-emma.uk

Hi! It's me. For the next four weeks, we're trying something a little different on Dial Emma - this is Voicenote Therapy, combining my love of long voicenotes with therapeutic insights to create something new and, hopefully, helpful.
Today, in episode two, we're exploring a question I hear a lot, in life and in the therapy room: "am I asking for too much?"
I delve deeper into why we tell ourselves that we're expecting too much from other people, the tendency to shrink our needs and preempt our own disappointment rather than asking for what we need without apology, and how we can begin to rewrite the script by telling our truth.
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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Dial Emma @dialemmapodcast
Email: contact@dial-emma.uk

Hello! It's me. This week we're trying something a little different on Dial Emma - this is Voicenote Therapy, combining my love of long voicenotes with therapeutic insights to create something new and, hopefully, helpful.
Today I'm exploring the idea that the feeling causing us the most distress is not always the real root of the problem - whether it's anxiety, overthinking, people-pleasing, recurring relationship patterns, or something else - and why therapy often seeks to shift the focus from, “how do I stop this?” to “what is this trying to tell me?”
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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Book my 2027 women's retreat at Bliss House in Crete: https://bliss-house-experience.replit.app
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Dial Emma @dialemmapodcast
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