Episode 6 — I'm Happy For You. So Why Am I Jealous?

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Episode 6 — I'm Happy For You. So Why Am I Jealous?
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Storming In: The Coping Style That Can Hijack Relationships (Schema Therapy SOS)

Psychologists and friends Lisa and Tanya explore “storming in,” a coping style in their SOS series (after “submit” and “opt out”), and how it shows up across friendships, family, and intimate relationships. They describe storming in as fighting against vulnerability—often rooted in shame, inadequacy, envy, jealousy, or fear of abandonment—by becoming controlling, demanding, or socially aggressive, ranging from competence and taking charge to boundary violations, hot-and-cold behaviour, gossiping, and, at extremes, violence and exploitation.

They discuss how storming in can seem helpful by restoring power, driving action, and supporting assertiveness, but can also destroy relationships through contempt, resentment, and subjugating others. Using the “lifeguard/healthy adult” and the RESET steps, they emphasise recognising urges, slowing down, identifying underlying feelings, owning one’s “stuff,” and communicating needs directly rather than acting impulsively or punitively.

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Midlife Relationships: Why Now?
Midlife Relationships: Why Now?

How can you feel so competent in so many areas of your life, perhaps more confident than you have ever felt as an adult woman, and then be completely undone by somebody not replying to a text? That question came up again and again when you shared your experiences of relationships in midlife. This first episode of the series looks at why midlife brings our relationship patterns into such sharp focus, and why loss is not always a lens.

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Burnout: When Good Enough Is Never Enough
Burnout: When Good Enough Is Never Enough

Some lenses slow us down. This one keeps us running. Do it properly. Keep going. You can rest when it is finished. And somehow it is never quite finished. In the final part of our burnout series we look at Unrelenting Standards: why there is rarely any satisfaction at the end of a task, how pushing harder, procrastinating, withdrawing and taking control all come from the same place, and what good enough might genuinely look like.

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When Dry Eye Became Anything But Minor
When Dry Eye Became Anything But Minor

Before this happened, the words dry eye sounded mildly inconvenient. A bit of grittiness, some drops from the chemist, life carrying on as normal. I did not imagine a condition that could affect whether I could work, look at another person, sit through a family meal or stay in a brightly lit room. This is a personal account of meibomian gland dysfunction, photophobia and the invisible effort of trying to keep living normally, including what it is like when your own body stops making sense.

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Tanya & Lisa

Dr Tanya Petersen and Dr Lisa Corbett met at university at 18, living next door to each other in halls. Nearly thirty years later, they're still friends, and for the past seven years they've been colleagues too.

Tanya is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist (DClinPsy), HCPC-registered, and an ISST Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist and Supervisor. She qualified in 2008, worked for years in NHS forensic services, and first encountered schema therapy in 2004 — which, in her words, felt like coming home.

Lisa is an HCPC-registered Counselling Psychologist (PsychD). She took the scenic route into psychology, via corporate work and volunteering with children's charities in South Africa, and has since worked across NHS and private settings.

They founded 2 Together to make schema psychology accessible — through the free Unstuck podcast, self-guided courses, and one-to-one online therapy.

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