Introducing: Dear Therapists

Sit in on the intimate sessions of renowned therapists and national advice columnists Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch as they guide fellow travelers through the everyday and extraordinary challenges of life.

Each week, Lori and Guy invite you to be a fly-on-the-wall and listen to their personal, raw, transformative sessions, where they share behind-the-scenes insights, offer actionable advice, and bring people back to find out what worked (or didn’t)–and what we can all learn about ourselves through the lens of others.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Each of our lives is a story. As therapists, our
job is to show you that perhaps your story isn't
exactly what you thought it was. And I have never
thought of it that way. And honestly, in the first
time in two years, I feel bad for her because
I have not felt that way the whole time. It
has just been difficult. So thank you for I think,

(00:20):
allowing me to feel feel bad for her. Hey everyone,
I'm Lori Gottlieb. I'm a psychotherapist and I write the
Dear Therapist advice column for The Atlantic. I'm also the
author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. And I'm Guy,
which I'm a psychologist and I write the Dear Guy
advice column for TED. I also wrote Emotional First Aid,

(00:41):
and we are the hosts of a new podcast from
I Heart Radio, Dear Therapists. We both get tons of
letters each week for our columns, but we wanted to
have real time conversations with the people who write to
us and not only guide them, but also share with
you our listeners, the behind the scenes of what we're thinking.
When someone says, can you help me with this? Wow?

(01:02):
So that's an interesting letter, right, This is a please
tell me, I'm not a scumbag. Letter Yeah to me,
it's I need to get out of jail too. I've
been dating a single as for two years from his daughter,
a six year old. She hates me for one minute
and loved me ten minutes later. I was raised in
a generation where men didn't show emotions. I am not

(01:23):
good at words, but going through it has helped me
grow in that sense. But we wanted to go even
deeper than that. So there's a twist in our columns.
Our readers don't get to hear how the advice worked out,
but in our podcast, we decided to bring people back
so they can fill us in on how everything went,
what worked, what didn't, and what we can all learn

(01:45):
from it. And I'm glad in a way that it
did happen this way because I've learnt more about myself
and what I William won't stand for in a relationship.
I don't want to lose sight of the negative feelings
that I cost her. I just hope that at some
point you can forgive me. We're so excited it to
bring you these intimate, thought provoking, and relatable conversations. So
we'll begin July. Our first wait what should we call

(02:07):
our guest guy. Well, they aren't patients or clients, but
it's more intimate than guests. So you know what. The
psychiatrist Irvin y'all have like to refer to the people
he worked with as fellow travelers, because we're all fellow
travelers on this journey called life. I've always loved that idea.
I love it too. You can be one of our
fellow travelers. If you would like to talk to us

(02:29):
about a problem, big or small, send us an email
at LORI and Guy at I heart media dot com.
That's l O R I A N D g u
Y at I heart media dot com and subscribe to
de your therapists on Apple podcasts, the ir heart radio app,
or wherever you get your podcasts. Starting July, we can't

(02:50):
wait to travel with you.