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My Therapist Said is your worst nightmare: a therapist who’s fresh out of empathy. Hosted by Stef, a licensed therapist sharing stories about therapy, addiction, relationships, and the absolute circus that is being a human being.
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is the jig up?! (opens the original)
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What do aliens, cheating, and sending your partner to therapy have in common? Leave it to Stef to connect the dots. This week, Stef recaps surviving a bachelorette party without wearing a wig, talks friendship without all the pressure, gives an unsolicited PSA about trying to send your partner to therapy, and gets into the 90 Day Fiancé tell-all. Somewhere along the way, we arrive at the larger point: you cannot control other people. Not your partner, not whether they cheat, and apparently not w
vibes are down (opens the original)
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What happens when the people who understand the system best, stop coming for each other and instead focus on greater issues? This week, Stef gets into reality TV nonsense, therapist-on-therapist crime, broken systems, unsolicited solutions, Bubs being deeply annoyed by the sound of her voice, and why sometimes the thing you keep brushing off as “not a big deal” actually deserves a second look. Because maybe we don’t need to fix, minimize, or explain everything immediately. Sometimes we can just…
good vibes, allegedly (opens the original)
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What if having absolutely no idea what you’re doing is actually part of figuring it out? This week, Stef is thinking about what happens when the people expected to hold everyone else are struggling themselves, why better mental healthcare has to include better support for providers, and whether any of us actually know what we’re doing as much as we pretend to. Then, naturally, things spiral into dating apps, keeping your options aggressively closed, having “a man on the line,” and the eternal qu
self-awareness: intact, bitch (opens the original)
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What happens when you realize your parents were right and your tone actually is the problem? This week, Stef scraps an entire episode, re-records on a Sunday, and discovers that self-awareness is unfortunately alive and well. Somewhere along the way, an unplanned trip to Chile turns into one of her favorite memories, grief makes the world look a little more beautiful, and crying somehow restores her ability to remember basic geography. Plus, there is not a hot man in sight, there is briefly not
What’s the alternative? (opens the original)
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What happens when your life feels like it’s falling apart and coming together at the same time? This week, Stef is in the messy middle—thinking about career changes, grief, identity, and what it means to keep moving when you don’t actually know where you’re going. She’s talking about the strange experience of knowing something had to change while still grieving what you left behind, and learning to separate one difficult chapter from the rest of your life. Stef is also thinking about what happen
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