Tell Me About Your Mother
Welcome to “Tell Me About Your Mother,” a podcast for psychotherapists by psychotherapists, where we explore issues related to our profession, filtering them through our professional, and sometimes personal and humorous, lens. Each episode, Evan and Melissa offer food for thought by bringing their experience and humanity to help you strengthen your practice of psychotherapy. We would love to connect with you at contactus@tellmeaboutyourmother.run.
Tell Me About Your Mother
Episode 22: Alcoholic Garden Gnome
Evan and Eli are one-on-one for this episode. Within minutes they realize that Melissa represents a shadow mother figure in the podcast dynamic and that her absence allows for more dick jokes. Discussing the phallic qualities of their mic stands provides a bridge to a slightly more serious conversation:
- “Sounding gay”
- Southern sayings
- Family therapy
- Intervening in a family system
- Garden gnome drunk
- Love pats instead of spankings
- Fast routes to treating core elements of clients
- Saying unconventional things to clients to diffuse and restructure conversations
- Old men becoming softer
- I’d be a bad father if I was warm and loving
- Our questions are often a projection of ourselves
- Revictimization of trauma experiences in institutions that are needing data to funding and reimbursements
- Evan tells a kid to punch a hole in the wall
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