May 13, 2024

EP. 214 — Unfiltered: AMA with Vienna Pharaon

Mental Health Awareness Month continues with Jameela welcoming licensed marriage & family therapist Vienna Pharaon (The Origins of You) to answer your questions about tough relationships with aging parents, how to deal with friends or family who refuse therapy and how to reframe the way our brains deal with shame and disappointment. You’ll hear Vienna’s thoughts on EMDR and more pattern dissolving techniques to improve your mental health and more.

 

Find Vienna on IG @mindfulmft and her book The Origins of You via viennapharaon.com

 

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Transcript

Jameela [00:00:18] Vienna Pharon. Welcome to I Weigh. How are you?   Vienna [00:00:21]  I’m wonderful. Thank you for having me. Happy to be here.   Jameela [00:00:24] I’m so thrilled to have you. We have wanted a licensed professional for these Ask Me Anything episodes for ages because otherwise it’s just me and my friends, and we really didn’t go to school for long enough to answer any of the more kind of serious questions. And so I’m so happy to have you here. And we have so many fun questions for you, both from your audience and mine. Before we get into it, would you like to explain your area of expertise?   Vienna [00:00:52] Sure. I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist, so I work with individuals, couples, and families within the context of relationships, but really specifically, I love looking at the family of origin, the family system that we grew up in. Sometimes multiple systems. If you’re like me, my parents went

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