EMMA REED-TURRELL: People Pleasing, Pacifiers & Trying Too Hard

Today I am joined by psychotherapist and author Emma Reed Turrell. Emma’s early twenties saw her graduate from Cambridge university and swept straight into a grad job at Procter & Gamble where she worked in sales and marketing for the best part of 10 years. Her twenties, as she recalls, were all about trying (and mostly failing) to find her tribe while frequently feeling flattened by imposter syndrome. Riddled with people pleasing tendencies Emma found herself working in a job that didn’t fulfil her and continuously tried to impress both socially and in a tricky corporate climate, before reaching the realisation that this was not the path for her and was in fact jeopardising her own integrity. It was actually her first therapy experience aged 23 that sparked in Emma a journey of self-awareness that led to her to re-train over the course of her twenties to become a therapist herself at 29.And I think I speak on behalf of all her readers and clients when I say, ‘thank god she did’. Emma is now a practicing psychotherapist and as well as being Director of ‘The Therapy Loft’ has also this year published the must-read guide which will transform the way you live ‘Please Yourself’. As well as having potentially the best name ever, Emma is a wonderful writer, an anecdote queen, and the friend we all need to remind us that you can choose to continue to try to be liked by everyone or you could aim to be unconditionally accepted by some. Her book has certainly changed my life for the better and I have no doubt it will do the same for you...Our favourite Millennial Minesweeper Quote this week was; 'We can never have enough of what we never truly wanted' - Nicky Clinch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.