When Estrangement Runs In The Family: With Coach Barb / Mom On Mute

How childhood experiences shape estrangement and parent-child relationships Healing often begins when we stop repeating old patterns and learn to release control.   What happens when the patterns you grew up with quietly shape the way you parent, love, and handle conflict decades later? In this episode of Mom on Mute, Mindy sits down with Coach Barb G to explore how childhood trauma, family dynamics, and learned behaviors ripple into adulthood and sometimes lead to family estrangement. Together they discuss the complicated reality behind going no contact, the emotional weight carried by estranged parents and estranged adult children, and how unresolved pain can shape toxic family dynamics across generations. The conversation dives into accountability, empathy, and the difficult truth that many parent-child relationships break down not from a single moment, but from years of patterns repeating themselves.    When Estrangement Runs In The Family: With Coach Barb This episode is for listeners navigating cutting off family, struggling with estranged parents, or trying to understand why relationships with adult children sometimes fracture. It also speaks to anyone rebuilding life after estrangement and wondering how to move forward without losing themselves in the pain. Sometimes the hardest step toward healing is the one no one talks about: learning when to finally let go.