Tell Me About Your Mother
Evan Miller and Melissa Martin
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.
If you'd like to connect further, we are on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. You can also send us an email-- [email protected].
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Episode 40: Recovering From Codependency
Tell Me About Your Mother
09/03/24 • 65 min
Evan and Melissa discuss the nature of recovering from codependency, its benefits, and challenges.
- Finding recovery from codependency or other mental health struggles
- CODA a 12-step recovery program for people recovering from Codependency
- Recovery is not an arrival
- Complications of personal growth journey
- The risk of outgrowing relationships
- Stages of change
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 26: What Are We Doing?
Tell Me About Your Mother
09/27/23 • 16 min
Evan, Melissa, and Eli discuss the intention of the podcast and ways to become more intentional in our discussions.
- Melissa is our podcast mommy
- Incorporating the interpersonal supervision model into our conversations
- Chasing trends creates pop psychology and misinformation
- The power of Free Association
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 17: Smother Mothers
Tell Me About Your Mother
09/15/22 • 54 min
In this episode, Evan shares his experience with a virtual family client. Evan, Eli, and Melissa reflect upon how the family system creates unwanted feelings and responses from all involved and that common lack of emotional trust in families. Please join us as we navigate interpersonal communication by also contemplating:
- Inviting families to go beyond the "presenting problem"
- Families passing the anxiety “hot potato”
- Parents enabling adult children vs. parenting
- Random tear bombs!
- You don’t have to understand it to treat it
- Scapegoating
- Countertransference can be used tactfully
- Mother’s anxiety suggesting hidden rage
- Smother mothers
- Members of family being responsibly irresponsible to maintain relationship cohesion
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 16: Identified Patient Paradigms
Tell Me About Your Mother
08/10/22 • 82 min
- When therapists meet themselves in session
- Counter transference implications
- Can defiance be a form of play?
- Conceptualizing child behavior as a mode of communication
- Eli compares school expulsion as a railroad car on prison pipeline
- What is a "Fawning" trauma response?
- How do secure attachments grieve romantic losses?
- Evan's grippy sock vacation
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 22: Alcoholic Garden Gnome
Tell Me About Your Mother
06/09/23 • 83 min
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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Episode 21: Emotional Literacy
Tell Me About Your Mother
05/02/23 • 57 min
- subtle minimization in childhood
- Using Lysol to kill monsters
- Somatic experience informs
- Physicians are not mental health professionals
- Bypassing intellectual blocking by processing clients’ somatic experiences
- Dangers of pop psychology using incorrect language that impacts clients’ self perceptions
- Stop using manic episode incorrectly
- Making past-present connections
- Sometimes effective therapy is just showing up
- Dragon themed dildos
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Episode 20: Your Body is Communicating
Tell Me About Your Mother
02/16/23 • 61 min
Evan and Eli support Melissa and process her gut reaction to clients’ stories, exploring her own counter-transference. This episode also includes topics of:
- Using cuss words when you pray
- Affairs don’t happen in a vacuum
- Counter transference informing therapeutic process
- Negative core belief of defective shame
- Blowing away bullshit to find authentic self
- Trauma responses- filing into longterm storage via the Amygdala to hippocampus
- Victimization soup
- When women cheat
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 19: Emotional Portaling
Tell Me About Your Mother
12/20/22 • 53 min
- Reenactment affecting client retention
- Yawning in trauma-focused therapy
- Infantilizing do alleviate parents’ anxiety
- Don’t be a dick
- Viewing identity as a developmental sprectrum
- Extreme political views reenacting childhood trauma
- What’s going on with trucks with flags?
- Ideology being substituted for identity
- Emotional portals to visit attachment ruptures
- AIP
- Emotional touchstone creating memory network
Resource Recommendations: Robin Shapiro Ego State Training
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 18: Mental Gymnastics
Tell Me About Your Mother
11/01/22 • 77 min
Eli, Evan, and Melissa take a forensic look at reaction formation, emblem leakage, and cognitive dissonance within Bill Cosby’s career and criminal case and the cost of “winners and losers” within the legal and two-party payer healthcare systems. What do we need to be more honest with ourselves and others? What would it take to be more open to criticism and self-reflection and make peace with perfectionism?
Have any questions or insights about this episode? Reach out to us at [email protected]
Episode 37: Healing Through Song
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05/17/24 • 87 min
Evan and Jamie Kay meet and discuss the healing, reflective, and connecting elements of songwriting with the writer and its audiences. Jamie has written over 300 songs in the course of his 50 years of songwriting. He's a gifted storyteller whose sincerity penetrates throughout our conversation. We're happy to share his energy with our listeners!
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FAQ
How many episodes does Tell Me About Your Mother have?
Tell Me About Your Mother currently has 46 episodes available.
What topics does Tell Me About Your Mother cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Counseling, Therapy, Humor, Comedy, Podcast and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on Tell Me About Your Mother?
The episode title 'Episode 29: Dating Dopamine' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Tell Me About Your Mother?
The average episode length on Tell Me About Your Mother is 60 minutes.
How often are episodes of Tell Me About Your Mother released?
Episodes of Tell Me About Your Mother are typically released every 27 days, 22 hours.
When was the first episode of Tell Me About Your Mother?
The first episode of Tell Me About Your Mother was released on Nov 8, 2021.
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