The Therapy Edit - The Therapy Edit - Over and Out

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

Today marks the final episode of The Therapy Edit (for now).What started as a passion project in lockdown—when I didn’t even realise my microphone was backwards!—became one of the most loved and fulfilling parts of my work. I could never have dreamt it would grow into over 350 episodes, with over 4 million downloads, offering comfort, insight, and solidarity in the highs and lows of life.Your kind words of feedback have been fuel to my recording sessions.Now, it’s time to press pause. I’m putting the podcast on ice for now—This decision wasn’t easy, but it feels right. Life moves in seasons, and right now, I’m making space for more corporate work and deeper focus on my clinical therapy work.To every listener, every guest, every person who has shared an episode or sent a message—thank you. You’ve made this journey so special, and I’m endlessly grateful.A huge thank you to my AMAZING producer Kate at @contentinthecotswolds for being the machine behind the podcast, John at Aloe Audio for your patient and brilliant editing, Tom @bevjamesmanagement for lining me up with sponsors, Global for hosting me so warmly, and the talented Amber of @oohlala for all the branding over the years.I’ll always be passionate about sharing thoughts and conversations that help us navigate the messy, beautiful reality of life.And allll the episodes are there for you to listen whenever you need to. A library of supportive words. So, watch this space. Anna x

Welcome to The Therapy Edit. I'm your host, Psychotherapist and author Anna Martha. I will be bringing you bite-sized episodes twice a week full of tips, wise words from expert guests and insights to support your mental well-being. Hello, welcome to today's episodes of the Therapy Edit. I've got a big announcement to make today and I'm going to share some thoughts with you on it. But my announcement is, this is the final episode of the therapy edit. It has been a four year long journey and I'm actually recording this today in my son's room because this is where it all started. It was the therapy and it really came about at the beginning of the pandemic when I was just so desperate to share some words with people for the walks that they were allowed to, that we were allowed for

the one walk a day. And I just wanted to share some supportive, compassionate words for people to listen to. And it kind of really grew from there. I wasn't really expecting the therapy at it to be a thing. I just wanted it to be a resource for people. And I just put, I think I put out like 14 episodes or something. And I sat here in the top of the house, the, the quietest part of the house at the time when the house was just always full. And I would sit on my son's bedroom floor and I would record. And I didn't even realize that for the main, I had my microphone back to front. I didn't know what I was doing. I remember crying over my laptop. As you're here, I still don't completely know what I'm doing 300 and something episodes later.

But after that, the podcast got taken on, I think it was about a year later by, global and it's been set on their platform and I have absolutely loved doing the therapy edit. I have loved the conversations that we've had. I've loved the fact that no matter what has been going on in my life, I've had these moments of real reflection and self-reminding of the absolute importance of just finding some compassion for ourselves and one another, reminders of the light bulb moments and the tips and the tools and then all the guests that have come on and shared the one things that they want to share with all the parents and more recently, your R-scanners and confession from the therapy room. So thank you for all of you

who have listened and contributed and the beautiful messages that you have sent me. And yeah, it's been a real decision coming to this point. And I'm not going to say that there will never be another episode of The Therapy Edit. I am always having ideas. I'm always Yeah, thinking of things that I want to share. So it may be that I pop up with a series. It may be that, you know, we change the format that comes back in the future. But for now, the therapy edit is going to stop. And, yeah, feels like a big thing to kind of let go of.

But I am pursuing taking on more clients in this season of my work and doing more of the corporate work that I love. And also, if I'm really honest with you, I'm sure this is not the case for the big, huge podcast, but my podcast has always been a real passion project of mine, meaning that it's not something that has earned me finances to the main generally, although not always the income from the ads has just about covered the cost of the production and the team that I have enabling it do have gone on for so long so yeah I need to kind of

make a little bit of space really for for different projects that I've got going on but I just really hope that you have felt my heart and my care and my honesty through the words over the years and I just hope that it is a library

of you know just pep talks really for you to go back to they're all short I think I've always tried to keep it to 10 or 20 minutes just yeah just scroll through scroll through and just pick one on the school pickup or the nursery draw off or when you're having a bath or anything at any time you need some kind words just just go and use it there I wanted to build a really big library of warmth for people and

I think what I've learned through the podcast I mean I've learned so much I've learned the importance of just repeated messaging. You know, we need so often old habits die hard really, don't they? My old habits are perfectionism and people pleasing and not being so kind to myself. You know, these are something I can so easily fall back into. And I think what I've wanted to do for you and also myself in the therapy edit is just keep repeating and repeating and repeating in the hopes that we can chip away at those old narratives and just pave way in time for something, something new and kinder. And I just really, yeah, it's really done that for me. And I really, I really hope that it is something that has done that for you. But also the other

thing that I've learned that I would love you to think about is just starting things imperfectly, you know, thinking what dreams do you have? What. what have you always thought you might do but actually perfectionism has just kind of stifled that idea of yours because sometimes we want to start things brilliantly and we want to start them perfectly and actually it's just such a learning along the way and we need to give ourselves space and grace for that so I'm just grateful that my perfectionism didn't get in the way of me starting this podcast because it was an idea that I had and I just I made it happen imperfectly I scrabbled around um for the resources and the tools and the Google articles and the YouTube videos that I watch to just get it out there imperfectly. And with microphone back to France, sitting in the corner of a bedroom, no fancy winglights, no fancy nothing. And I think the other thing that I've learned is, you know, yes, just do things imperfectly.

Just go for it. Life is short. If there is a dream and hope, just strip it back to the bare bones of it. and just, you know, we can dream to write a book, but actually just start journaling, just start writing, typing things down, scribbling things down, just start imperfectly. I think the other thing that I've really learnt is that we can so often not share our thoughts, our opinions, our words, our hopes, whatever, whatever they may be, your own creativity. we can yearn to put it out there, you know, to share it because we know that if it benefits us and we see value in it, then maybe it could benefit someone else.

But when we constantly look around us to everything that everyone else is doing, all the other creative, you know, projects, all the other small businesses, all the other podcasts, all the other people on Instagram doing and sharing this, we can think, what's the point? There's plenty of other people doing that, doing it shiny or doing it. from a more experienced place doing it maybe as to what we perceive as better but I just want you to know that no one no one can say or do the things that you do in the way that you specifically do them and like yeah there are loads of other podcasts out there

that have been far bigger and more successful than the therapy at it and there have been definitely times when I've thought over the years you know well what what's the point in throwing my voice out there but but the point is that there will be people out there who resonate with how you share what you share, how you communicate what you do, the work that you do that is done just in the way that you do it, that will speak to them in a way that the bigger, shinier, you know, that those actually may not so value your voice and your experience and your stories. And if you have a heart or a desire to throw them out

a little bit further into the world, then stop looking left and right and know that there will be people who connect and find value in the work that you do for the very reason that it is you that are doing it. So yeah, just some of my learnings. But I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for this amazing opportunity. It's been such a valued and cherished part of my working week, having these little conversations and little recording times just scheduled in. I've actually found them really, really anchoring for me, regardless of kind of what is going on in the background and I would love to say thank you. I'd love to say thank you to John. John edits all my audio, alo audio and he just does a brilliant job. There have

been times he's had to edit out coughing fits and lots of, I can't remember what I was going to say. So John, I'm so grateful for you. Thank you. And Kate, Kate Starkey, she has basically enabled the therapy edit to be a thing because my ADHD brain would have gotten distracted and trotted off elsewhere, I think had Kate not just been so brilliantly consistent in keeping it at the forefront of my mind and just making it happen and just all the logistics and they're getting the guests on and just she has just done and doing all the reels, she does that. She's just honestly like the therapy edit wouldn't be a thing if it wasn't for Kate. we wouldn't have like hundreds of episodes as there as a library for you if it if it wasn't for kate so kate you are patient and

and lovely and kind and i'm so grateful that you have been the driving force behind this and the team at bev james and tom he was the one that listened to my very early episodes and was like anna this this needs to be a thing we need to carry this on and he helped me um get yeah find a platform and Izzy behind the scenes she's my day-to-day support and she's just been brilliant and supportive and Amber who's who is at Oolala she is she's on return to leave at the minute and she has been you know helping me with the branding side of stuff and I'm just so grateful because I think people what people don't realize when they put the headphones in that they're there really

is a team behind you know much of much of what we consume and yeah I'm I'm just grateful for having had this experience. So thank you. I will leave you. I may well pop back up. The Therapy Edit may pop back up on your podcast feeds. But I wanted to leave a little bit of space for new things. And yeah, I'm so grateful for you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Take care. Thank you for listening to The Therapy Edit today. If you enjoyed it, please do take a sec to like and subscribe so we can share the words further and wider. If you have an ask Anna question or an anonymous confession for the Confessions from the Therapy Room episodes, head to anamatha.com and click

on the podcast tab to submit. Want more? Grab a copy of my most recent book, The Uncomfortable Truth, change your life by taming 10 of your mind's greatest fears or enjoy some of the video and downloadable resources on my website, tackling everything from burnout to driving anxiety. So until the next episode, goodbye. Thank you.