All Episodes

EP278: A Different View (part II)

EP277: A Microphone, Some Nerves & Me (more five year reflections)

EP276: The Daughter In The Room (5 year reflection)

EP275: A Different View (anniversary reflections, part I)

EP274: Why Your Apology Isn't Landing

EP273: Same Words, Different Dictionaries

EP272: Don't Look At Me Like That!

EP271: Why Can't You Just Let It Go?

EP270: The Grace We Give

EP269: Shame - gasoline, not water

EP268: What TikTok Taught Me

EP267: Invisible

EP266: Did They Really Know?

EP265: One Relationship. Two Experiences.

EP264: Hard Truths Require Soft Landings

EP263: Fitting In vs Belonging in Families

EP262: The Right Words

EP261: What Holds Families Together Now?

EP260: Pain - Where Does It Go?

EP259: How Power Kills Empathy

EP258: Beneath The Control - the fear-driven parent

EP257: Reconciliation Grief

EP256: Labels - "Intimate Terrorist": What Labels Do to Families Already Breaking

EP255: Who's Holding Your Pain?

EP254: Self of Mother (Mother's Day)

EP253: Grieving Lost Potential (for estranged parents)

EP252: Grieving Lost Potential (for estranged adult children)

EP251: Rethinking Tough Love

EP250: It's a THEM Problem, Not a ME Problem!

EP249: Is Culture To Blame?

EP248: Worry Feels Productive. It Isn't.

EP247: The Wave Has Parts - sadness in estrangement

EP246: Is It Really A Double Standard?

EP245: What Estrangement & Easter Have In Common - a non-religious Easter message

EP244: Her Story, Her Words, Her Healing - Part 3B

EP243: (The Bridge) Her Story, Her Words, Her Healing - part 3A

EP242: Her Story, Her Words, Her Healing - part II of III

EP241: Her Story, Her Words, Her Healing - part I of III

EP240: Dignity, Distance & the Myth of the Perfect Return

EP239: Obedience As Safety

EP238: Oprah, Estrangement, and the Questions No One Asked

EP237: When Certainty Stops Working

EP236: I Did Nothing Wrong

EP234: Part II - Estrangement Is Trauma for Parents

EP233: Estrangement Is Trauma For Parents

EP232: When Obedience Felt Like Love

EP231: When Pain Needs Care Not A Villian

EP230: When Certainty Once Kept Us Safe and No Longer Does

EP229: Curiosity Is Respect & More

EP228: Myth of the Perfect Parent

EP227: Best Gift To Give Self & Others

EP226: I Am CONFLICT. I Am LOVE. & a Solstice Blessing

EP225: Why Repair Feels Impossible — And What Actually Helps

EP224: Information or Verdict?

EP223: Both And for the Holidays

EP222: Coded Family Communication

EP221: Dear Estranged Heart - When Will It Stop Hurting?

EP220: When The Holidays Aren't Normal

EP219: 4 Year Anniversary with The Estranged Heart

EP218: Dear Estranged Heart - Does Our Once Happy Family No Longer Matter?

EP217: Hardened Heart - Mapping a Heart's Armor

EP216: Dear Estranged Heart - How Do I REALLY Apologize?

EP215: Labels in Estrangement - Help or Harm?

EP214: Dear Estranged Heart - How Do I REALLY Apologize?

EP213: Green Beans & Echo Chambers

EP212 - Dear Estranged Heart: Why Did My Child Cut Me Off?

EP211: Radical Responsibility

EP210: Dear Estranged Heart - How, When & Why Did You Start This Podcast?

EP209: When You Name It You Stop Being Ruled By It

EP208: Dear Estranged Heart - You’ve Changed. Your Support Feels Shaming of Mothers Now

EP207: The Lost Art of Curiosity

EP206: Dear Estranged Heart - DEH - It's Hard Not To Think They Aren't PUNISHING Me!

EP205: The Illusion of Control - reclaim your peace

EP204: The Relational Dangers of 'Othering'

EP203: Generational Conditioning & Emotional Needs

EP202: The Mirror Effect: When We See Our Own Wounds in Our Children

EP201: When Pain Becomes Poison

EP200: When Estranged Parents Ask Adult Children 'Why Did You Stay If It Was So Bad?'

EP199: When Their Version of You Hurts

EP198: Dear Estranged Heart - Should We Cut Our Kid Out of Our Will?

EP197: How Do I Love The Adult Child I Do Not Like?

EP196: Dear Estranged Heart - What IS Healing? And How Will I Know When I Have Arrived?

EP195: Why Parent-Adult Child Relationships Are Not Equal — And Why That Matters

EP194: Dear Estranged Heart - I Want Desperately To Send A Birthday Card/Gift. Should I?

EP193: Tunnel Vision: How Stress Distorts Our Perception in Parent & Adult Child Estrangement

EP192: Dear Estranged Heart - They Sent An Obligatory Text. What Do I Do With That?

EP191: This Is Who I Am - Or Is It?

EP190: Dear Estranged Heart: Am I’m being just as cold and unforgiving as they were?

EP189: Why Does “Disrespect” Cut So Deep?

EP188: Dear Estranged Heart - Is 'Tough Love', Love?

EP187: You Think That’s Abuse? C-PTSD & The Dangerous Legacy of Trauma Comparison

EP186: Unseen Wounds - How C-PTSD May Be Shaping Your Story (Without You Knowing)

EP185: Echo Chambers

EP184: Dear Estranged Heart - Too Little, Too Late?

EP183: This Past Mother's Day Wasn't Easy (for adult children)

EP182: Dear Estranged Heart - How To Navigate Family Conversations About EAC

EP181: This Past Mother’s Day Really Hurt (for estranged moms)

EP180: Our Collective Pain Can Become Our Collective Power

EP179: Dear Estranged Heart - How Do I Get Through Mother's Day?

EP178: When “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy” Hurts More Than It Helps