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.
128 episodes transcribedThis episode contains discussions of a sexual trauma. Please take care listening. A woman in a healthy and loving relationship talks to Esther about t...
For years she has been the breadwinner while he has felt like a failure at home raising their daughter. After he found a new career and subsequently,...
Esther speaks to a woman who seems to get to a certain place within a relationship and then they end it. In her words, she seems to keep finding herse...
Our friend Dan Harris hosts the Ten Percent Happier podcast. A skeptical journalist, Dan had a panic attack on live TV that sent him on a journey that...
Friendships are their own love stories. Our friends provide continuity in an ever-changing world. They accompany us through the trials and tribulation...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin?. They’ve been together for more than a decade, but this isn’t the first tim...
A woman comes to Esther with a question about how to move on from the pain that her parents have caused her. They’ve begun family therapy but she wond...
Esther speaks to a man struggling to live a life he can enjoy. He feels wracked with guilt over a troubled history with his birth mother and her life...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A couple with two small children are at physical and emotional odds in thei...
After 20 years together, they wonder if their marriage has run its course? She is too unhappy to stay together and doubts if she ever felt true passio...
How do you begin to define a new identity for yourself when you've left the comforts of the world you've known in search of a bigger life? This is wha...
He was deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. In the 20 years since, he has struggled with PTSD and addiction. She has long taken on the role of his care...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A new marriage and a young child—both are first-generation children of immi...
They're best friends and ER doctors at a small hospital. During the pandemic, they experienced a fracturing among their coworkers, who they once thoug...
He fell in love with someone at work and left his wife. Fast forward a year, he's engaged and realizes he's made a mistake. Now he wants his wife and...
This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A young family, a ten-year age difference, and a wife who used an extra-mar...
Esther talks to a woman who was passed over for a promotion, again. She straddles two cultures and finds that it is impacting her work and her persona...
When a tragedy shakes their church and their community, both the preacher and his wife try to put the pieces back together for themselves and his cong...
She has never quite fit into the mold of the preacher's wife in their small town. He has put his self-worth solely into his career, as a bandaid over...
In this Esther Calling, we meet a woman who feels that her brother's wife is standing in the way of her relationship with her brother. For years, she...
