Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther’s Office Hours

These three young men grew up together and started a production company as adults. They faced the growing pains one might expect as they transitioned from friends to coworkers. Now, two years after their initial session, Esther follows up to see where they are now and what shifted after the session.

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 the challenges of running, essentially, a family business. Esther helps them find the complementarity in their roles and see their story as growing and developing even in the face of challenges.
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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 also wondering if she keeps choosing the safe person as a way to combat those childhood feelings of abandonment. Esther helps her untangle these complicated feelings.
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In this Apple bonus, Esther shares a letter she wrote about mothers including the complicated relationship she had with her own mother. As we approach Mother's Day, Esther invites you to reflect on your own relationships with motherly figures and encourages you to reach out to them. She even has a few ideas of things you can ask to get a new conversation started.

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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 partners who, despite their loving and positive relationship, go months without connecting sexually. He transitioned 10 years ago, and they’re both experiencing the physical changes of aging. Esther guides them through body exercises, in an effort to help them find sexual spaces amidst the crush of everyday life.
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It's been a few weeks since Esther first spoke to this young man who kept getting to a certain point in relationships before he would start fantasizing about his ex-boyfriends or other future partners. Esther talks through some of the things that stuck with her after the session ended and he lets us know where everything landed after they hung up.

For the first time on the U.S. stage, Esther invites you to an evening unlike any other. Join her as she shines a light on the cultural shifts transforming relationships and helps us rethink how we connect, how we desire – and even how we love. To find a city near you, go to https://www.estherperel.com/tour2024

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