Tell Me About Your Mother
Tell Me About Your Mother is a podcast guided by a psychotherapist duo-- Evan Miller and Melissa Martin. If you are a therapist, enjoy learning from experts, or curious as to how therapists conceptualize complex characters, this is your podcast.
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Tell Me About Your Mother
Episode 53: Let Them Fail | Therapists, Adolescents, and the Audacity to Be Human
In this raw and wide-ranging episode of Tell Me About Your Mother, Evan and Melissa explore what it means to be a therapist, parent, and human being—flawed, opinionated, and under pressure to perform. From setting boundaries on the soccer field to navigating adolescent risk-taking and drug use, the conversation covers the deep discomfort of losing control, the power of regulation, and the dangers of sanitized professionalism.
Topics include:
- Why regulating yourself is the most powerful parenting move
- The limits of behavioral control in adolescence
- The dark side of data, AI, and digital permanence
- Why therapists shouldn’t have to apologize for being human
- Self-diagnosis trends and the loss of clinical nuance
Whether you’re a clinician, a parent, or just someone trying not to lose it in public—this episode is your permission slip.
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at contactus@tellmeaboutyourmother.run
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