20 Years Later, Esther Revisits Mating in Captivity
6/22/202644 min
This week, Esther invites you into a conversation about desire, disruption, and what it means to stay alive to one another in a rapidly changing world.
Recorded live at Sessions Live, Esther is joined by journalist and Head of Content at Esther Perel Global Media, Mary Alice Miller, for a look back on twenty years of Mating in Captivity and explore how our ideas about intimacy, desire, and relationships have evolved.
Also, just for you, inspired by the anniversary of Mating in Captivity, Esther has also curated a special playlist of Where Should We Begin podcast sessions exploring themes from the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4d1AeEj4uypRpUnrgv6dlm?si=cIw37dzLTMaoBeagQPi1Cw
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
Today's episode of Where Should We Begin? is special. It was recorded live at Sessions Live, which is Estere's annual gathering of therapists, mental health professionals, coaches, and people who are just curious about relationships and the way we connect. This year marked a series of milestones for Estere. It's 20 years from the publication of her first book, Mating in Captivity. It's 10 years of Sessions Live, and it's also nearly a decade of working with me on the podcast. And as you know, on Where Should We Begin?, there's this deliberate choice to focus on the session and the couple, and not much on Estere as a person. But I feel like anniversaries sometimes create spaces for different kinds of conversations. So for this session, we're gonna be joined by writer and journalist Mary Alice Miller, who is a colleague of mine at Esther Perel Global Media, where she is the head of content. And for this, she invited Estere to talk about Mating in Captivity, and to reflect on the experiences and the influences that shaped her work. And also to revisit some of the ideas that have evolved in the 20 years since the publication of Mating in Captivity, and all the questions that come with that. So here's Estere in live conversation with Mary Alice Miller.
Esther Perel· Host1:19
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