With each episode, I gain insight into my own relationships (work, family, friends, partner, kids) even when, on the surface, I have nothing in common with the guests. All of this gives me courage to improve my relationships with others and ideas and hope for getting unstuck. The cost of good therapy feels prohibitive, but a membership to this podcast has become a tangible way to support myself.

I have historically really liked this podcast but it has been awhile since I have listened to an episode. I found the “Preferred Future” episode very difficult to listen to. Esther was constantly talking over and cutting off the two guests. They were rarely able to finish a thought before she started correcting them and talking over them. I quit listening with 10 minutes left because it was hard to listen to. Why have guests if you aren’t going to let them speak?

Every time I listen to Esther, I learn something new about myself, my thoughts and my actions. Her way of analyzing the situation brings out a new understanding of the situation from different dimension, an aha moment.

For a modest subscription fee, you get access to more mind blowing therapy than you could get by emptying your bank account to pay for personal therapy over the course of a lifetime. What a gift to the masses!

Perel is great but my primary experience of listening to this podcast is one of trying to escape their strategies for getting money out of it/me. Upwards of three minutes of advertising drivel between segments, so much content behind a subscription, and much of the free content a teaser for the paid stuff, which never becomes free even months later. It’s so jarring when juxtaposed with the show itself, which is trying to be about the fundamentally non commodifiable human goods. As I listen to Perel rattling off yet another pitch for socks or vitamins or whatever I just keep thinking “you have several best selling books, do speaking engagements all over the world and have a psychotherapy practice in Manhattan. Aren’t you rich enough? Isn’t this supposed to be about helping people?” Ditto on the celebrity content — these people are not interesting because they aren’t actually sharing any of their genuine struggles and thus they make Perel decidedly less interesting too. Of course we are all inured to this kind of thing by now but on this podcast it feels especially aggressive.

I can’t believe the point wasn’t raised that the guy could have worn protection if he didn’t want a child!

Thank you Esther for the way you sound and deliver insights and facts to me. I listen to these podcasts and always come away with compassion and self understanding - remarkable.

I miss the original format of the show that was so different than anything else out there! I wish the show would return to couples and working with people.

Esther really listens. She is amazing how she hears small details that provide insight and understanding into the complicated web of intimate relationships .

First you will LOVE this podcast. You’ll binge it. Maybe relisten to a few favorite sessions. And then you start to see the very trendy commercial aspect to this product. Esther will hop onto nearly any new fad in the zeitgeist. It takes a bit, but once you see through her misplaced confidence and her bandwagon jumping this podcast product becomes unfortunately not helpful even if you do become one of her paid followers. Enjoy the honeymoon period, but don’t misplace your trust here