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Adult Child
by Andrea Ashley
Raw, honest, and a little unhinged - Adult Child dives into the lasting impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Host Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, unpacks complex trauma, codependency, and inner child healing with unapologetic authenticity and zero BS.
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #226 – James M.
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252 - Toxic Guilt: Why You Feel Like You’re in Trouble When You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
If you feel guilty for shit you didn’t even do, this one’s for you. Toxic guilt isn’t feedback on what you did. It’s a verdict on who you are, and you can’t apologize your way out of a verdict. And today we’re unpacking all the ways it shows up in your life, the childhood experiences that wired…
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #225 – Attachment Blindness
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251 - Attachment Blindness: Why You Miss Real Betrayal & See Harm That Isn't There
Your childhood decided who people are before they ever opened their mouths. Sometimes that means missing the person who is hurting you. Sometimes it means creating the harm you were braced for. There are two different ways your trauma keeps you from seeing a relationship for what it actually is....
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #224 – When You Just Want a Parent
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250 - What a Real Amends From a Parent Requires: Naming the Impact & What Happens If You Never Get It w/ Dr. Ken Adams & Leilani Sinclair
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- An apology is the parent telling you they feel bad. An amends is the parent telling you exactly what they did and what it cost you. Dr. Ken Adams and...
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249 - Why You Don't Let Yourself Feel Good: Guilt, Grief & Finding Joy When You're Struggling w/ Dr. MC McDonald
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn't sitting in the pain. It's letting yourself actually feel something good. Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald is a...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #223 – Jeremy
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Get in on this sh*t 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- ⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉...
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248 - When Your Body Has the Memory and You Don't: Repressed Memories & Somatic Healing w/ Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin - Your body will not hand you a memory until it is convinced you can survive it. Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia is a licensed clinical psychologist and trauma...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #222 – What You Hide Hardest
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247 - What Happens When Only One of You Does the Work: Family Role Dynamics and What Repair Actually Takes w/ Dr. Angelica Shiels
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin ---- All the healing work in the world won't make someone else willing to do their own. Dr. Angelica Shiels is a…
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #221 – Getting the Support You Need
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin ⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer…
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246 - Finding a Trauma Therapist Who Won't Harm You: Red Flags, Self-Disclosure & What to Ask w/ Amber Trejo & Megan Walsh
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- Trauma-informed is a phrase any practitioner can put on their website. But some of the people using it have never sat...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #220 – 5 Kinds of Fears
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- ⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer...
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245 - The Other Side of Fear: Life After the Wound Stops Being Your Identity w/ Bethany Webster
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- You've spent your whole life waiting for the other shoe to drop. Nobody tells you what happens when it finally stops...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #219 – Nicole F.
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️ Join…
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244 - What Lives in Your Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Complex Trauma w/ Hannah Fraser Moore
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- Whatever you refuse to look at inside yourself comes back at you disguised as your life. Hannah Fraser Moore is a...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #218 – Turning Toward Self: Inside Safe Within
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️ Join…
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243 - The Caregiving Trap: When the Parent You're Estranged From Becomes Your Responsibility w/ Katherine St. Claire
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- You finally go no contact after decades of abuse. Then one day the phone rings, and suddenly you're legally…
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #217 – Imposter Syndrome
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️ Join…
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242 - Imposter Syndrome Through the Lens of CPTSD: Confronting the Fraud Inside
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- You feel like a fraud bracing for the moment everyone finally figures you out. And no amount of accomplishment or...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #216 – The Return of Haley
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️ Join…
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241 - Inside an Emotional Flashback: Recognizing One, Surviving One & What's Underneath
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Early bird pricing through 9/17 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin -- Somebody doesn't text you back and suddenly you feel like you're going to die. You're not being pathetic. You're in a...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #215 – Things You Learned Were Normal That Never Were
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️ Join…
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240 - Borderline or Abandoned? What Separates a Personality Disorder From Untreated Relational Trauma w/ Susan Anderson
The Abandonment Trauma Queen is back on the pod, and today we're heading into uncharted territory: borderline vs. abandonment trauma. What truly separates the two, and why the BPD label gets handed out way too easily. Susan Anderson is a psychotherapist and a pioneer in the field of abandonment...
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #214 – Lynda S.
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️ Join…
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239 - Chronically Stuck in Your Head: How Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Quiets the Overthinking Mind w/ Joe Flanders
The voice in your head won't shut up because if it did, you'd have to feel what's in your body. Dr. Joe Flanders is a clinical psychologist based in Montreal who specializes in IFS, mindfulness, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. He's also the founder of Refuge, a community of practice built…
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SHITSHOW SATURDAY #213 – The Return of Moustache Mike
Mike's first Shitshow episode 👉 SHITSHOW SATURDAY #127 ⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co Shitshow Saturday #127 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates,...
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238 - The Deathbed Reckoning: Facing Unhealed Trauma and Family Wounds at the End w/ Kat Courtney
A death doula shares what really happens between a toxic parent and their child in the parent's final moments. Kat Courtney is a death doula and plant medicine facilitator who has sat with dozens of people in their final moments. After a childhood spent people-pleasing a father who only wanted…
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Shitshow Saturday #212 - When Scarcity Fuses With Self-Worth
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237 - Stopping The War Within: Understanding Your Patterns Through Parts w/ Britt Frank
Everything you hate about yourself starts making sense the moment you realize you're not one person - you're a whole system trying to survive. Britt Frank is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in trauma, trained in Internal Family Systems and Somatic Experiencing. She's the author of The...
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Shitshow Saturday #211 - Why Asking For Help is Hard
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236 - The ADHD Nervous System: Rewiring What Your Body Needs to Actually Function w/ Kristen Carder
The thing you've been medicating is the same thing your parents shamed you for. Kristen Carder is the host of the I Have ADHD podcast and a dually certified coach who's back on the pod today to take the ADHD and complex PTSD connection deeper — through the lens of your nervous system and what it...
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Shitshow Saturday #210 - Why We Struggle Socially
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235 - The Obligation Myth: What You Owe the Parent Who Hurt You w/ Lisa Stinson
When your inner child says don't be selfish, your inner teen says we don't owe them shit, and your true self asks what we can live with. Lisa D. Stinson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, former Navy psychologist, and trauma specialist with over twenty years treating survivors of narcissistic...
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Shitshow Saturday #209 - Ana S.
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234 - Wired for Abandonment: How Somatic Work Heals What Talk Therapy Can't w/ Valerie Rubin
Your childhood taught your body that love means waiting to be left. No amount of insight changes that. Val Rubin is a trauma-informed somatic coach and host of the Anxiety Recovery Podcast who specializes in healing the fear of abandonment through the nervous system rather than the mind — and…
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Shitshow Saturday #208 - Wanting to Be Chosen
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233 - The Gift of Grief: When Loss Becomes the Door You Couldn't Open On Your Own w/ Joe Ryan
Waiting to be chosen is the slowest way to abandon yourself. Joe Ryan is a trauma recovery coach and host of The Joe Ryan Podcast — and today, he's speaking from the other side of the most profound grief of his life. After losing his best friend to cancer and facing his own cancer scare six weeks...
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Shitshow Saturday #207 - How Do I Know I'm Healing?
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232 - Healing Together: A Couple's Journey Through Repressed Trauma w/ Tarah & EJ Kerwin
What your partner does when you fall apart is what your relationship was actually built on. Tarah and EJ Kerwin are licensed therapists, co-founders of Relationship Renovation Counseling in Tucson, and hosts of the Relationship Renovation podcast who teach what they’ve lived inside their own...
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Shitshow Saturday #206 - Impossible Self-Expectations
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231 - Why Your Relationships Keep Triggering You Even After You've Done the Work w/ Patrick Teahan
Doing the work means you start picking healthier people. It doesn't mean stuff stops coming up when you do. Patrick Teahan is a psychotherapist, childhood trauma educator, and YouTube creator. In today's conversation, he shares about how he kept trying to save his alcoholic mother through the…
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Shitshow Saturday #205 - The Return of Sam B.
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #118 - Sam B. ⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community 6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection 👉 theshitshow.mn.co 🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATION Get the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops. ➡️...
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230 - The Shame Triangle: The Inner War That's Keeping You Stuck w/ Jessica Fern & David Cooley
The voice beating you up, the shame absorbing it, the part that doesn't want you to feel it — that's the triangle you're trapped in. Jessica Fern is a certified clinical trauma therapist, David Cooley is a restorative justice practitioner, and together they co-authored Polywise. In their most...
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Shitshow Saturday #204 - When Your Parent Shared Too Much or Not Enough
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229 - The Codependency Bottom: When Sobriety Cracks Open the Trauma Underneath w/ David Deane Haskel
The most painful rock bottoms don't come from a relationship with a substance. They come from a relationship with a person. David Deane Haskel is an author of several fiction books, with his most recent being the memoir Wounded Angels. After losing his mother to suicide at the age of four, he…
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Shitshow Saturday #203 - Why Can't I Just Let Myself Feel Good?
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228 - Bracing for Impact: Why Trauma Blocks Joy & Good-Feeling Emotions w/ Jeannine Rashidi
Your childhood taught you good things don't last. Your body still believes it. Jeannine Rashidi is a TEDx speaker and bestselling author of Abundance Beyond Trauma —and her work on why we can't feel joy after a hard childhood is built on a story she lived first. With an ACE score of 10 out of 10,...
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Shitshow Saturday #201 - When Healing Dismantles "Truth"
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Raw, honest, and a little unhinged - Adult Child dives into the lasting impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Host Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, unpacks complex trauma, codependency, and inner child healing with unapologetic authenticity and zero BS.
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Raw, honest, and a little unhinged - Adult Child dives into the lasting impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Host Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, unpacks complex trauma, codependency, and inner child healing with unapologetic authenticity and zero BS.
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