Every Monday morning step into the office of iconic psychotherapist Esther Perel and listen in as real people in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their stories. From breakups and open relationships to workplace conflicts and fractures in the family, it’s a place to hear our own stories reflected in the lives of others. So…where should we begin? Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
114 episodes transcribedThey met in college; he's a U.S. citizen and she's trapped in a cross-border limbo. Their young love complicated by immigration status and politics, E...
The Arc of Love is my gift to you as your summer beach listen of 2024. A curated collection of stories about trust and betrayal, care and aggression,...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A husband hasn’t had an erection in 12 years and struggles with acknowledgi...
They met as community organizers in their neighborhood. She had just gotten out of a multi-year marriage to her ex-wife and began to forge new friends...
Four affairs and four divorces later, she is searching for answers as to why she can’t stop leaving in such an abrupt way. Despite longing for a life...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A newly married couple comes to Esther for guidance on how to create a spac...
Esther takes a question from a young woman struggling with her relationship with her father. A recent divorce and the slow reveal of an affair on the...
In this Esther Calling, Esther speaks to a young woman grappling with the burden of caring for her ailing parents and the feelings of resentment she f...
They grew up together and now run a production company. They are contending with the growing pains of transitioning from best friends to coworkers and...
Esther speaks to a woman who is experiencing a kind of a double story. She resents her mother for the choices she made and the example she set, while...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A middle-aged couple, together for seventeen years, best friends and partne...
He gets to a certain point in relationships before he starts fantasizing about his ex-boyfriends or other future partners. Esther talks him through wh...
She gets angry when she feels devalued and put down. He intellectualizes and rationalizes instead of sympathizing. Esther helps them to see each other...
A woman whose ex-boyfriend cheated on her with his ex girlfriend ends a perfectly good relationship because she can't trust how close her current part...
This week we're airing a very special episode of Brené Brown's Unlocking Us where Esther and Brené discuss how we manage the paradox of exploring the...
They were aid workers who met abroad, fell in love, and came to the States to get married. After two years, her partner returned to his home country t...
Not all conversations with Esther have to happen behind closed doors. Last week, Esther sat down with Trevor Noah, live from the Vox Media Podcast Sta...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A woman realizes she doesn’t want to have children and comes to Esther for...
Esther talks to a woman who, despite her best efforts, finds herself implicated in the same toxic cycle of abuse from her partner that she grew up wat...
They are a young couple with a small child and they fight non-stop. And while they each have good intentions, they struggle to hear or see each other....
