- Psychotherapist Esther Perel released podcast series Where Should We Begin
- Examines real couple working through their issues during therapy sessions
- First episode examines a couple trying to come to terms with husband’s affair
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A psychotherapist has laid bare what really goes on inside couples’ therapy – by turning her counselling sessions into a gritty podcast series.
Esther Perel offers a sneak peek into the real conversations that go on behind her office door as couples try to work through their issues.
The therapist, from Belgium, has used real recordings in the ten-part first season which she hopes will help other couples to battle their demons too.
Perel says the series, which is free to download on Audible, comprises ‘intimate, unscripted sessions between real-life couples’.
Through the keyhole: Each installment of Esther Perel’s new podcast series focuses on a different issues such as betrayal, infidelity, trauma, unemployment or ‘sexlessness’
Her latest venture, called Where Should We Begin, hit the iTunes store in late May and has already seen huge success, regularly topping the top audiobook lists.
Perel, who shot to fame with a TED Talk about how infidelity can save your marriage, says she found willing participants by sending out a request to hundreds of people on her mailing list.
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She received applications from some 450 couples, which she then narrowed down to 10, each of whom appear anonymously in unscripted, 30-minute episodes.
Each installment focuses on a different issues such as betrayal, infidelity, trauma, unemployment or ‘sexlessness’.
In episode one, Perel speaks to a couple who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the husband’s affair a year earlier.
Harrowing: Esther Perel offers listeners a sneak peek into the conversations that go on behind her office door as couples try to work through their issues
‘It’s not the affair that hurts,’ says his distraught wife who is also the mother of his three children. ‘It’s the betrayal that somebody else was more important [than me].’
She tells Esther: ‘Everything fell apart because of what he did. Part of my anger is because I feel like I’ve done a lot for him. I’ve changed my religion for him.’
Her husband then reveals that his Russian Orthodox wife had converted to Islam for him prior to his infidelity.
Esther attempts to guide the couple as they come to terms with the husband’s ‘violation of trust’ and his ‘deceit’.
Perel is currently looking for couples to take part in season two.
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