CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT
by Calling Home
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Who Gets To Spend The Holidays With You?
Who Gets To Spend The Holidays With You?
About this podcast
Whitney Goodman is a licensed marriage and family therapist and author on a mission to help adult family members have better relationships. Each week, Whitney has conversations with influential guests and real people to help listeners find new ways of looking at old family problems.Calling Home is available every Tuesday and Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- Who Gets To Spend The Holidays With You? · 30 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse by a parent. This week Whitney answers three questions on spending time with family during…
- Holiday Survival Plan For Dysfunctional Families · 32 minYou have about four weeks until Thanksgiving. Many people spend them dreading it and then repeat last year's holiday all over again. Whitney responds to comments she got on…
- Turns Out My Dad Wasn't The Bad Guy My Mom Made Him Out to Be · 25 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of childhood emotional neglect, verbal and physical abuse, and parental abduction. How is it that your grandmother is loving…
- Is "Concept Creep" What’s Driving Estrangement? · 38 minWhitney is fed up with how the "concept creep" of estrangement gets used to shut down conversations about real family harm. She traces the term back to psychologist Nick Haslam's…
- Believing Your Child to Break the Cycle · 32 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse, sexual abuse of a child, infidelity, and family estrangement. A listener writes in with a lifetime of family…
- Dealing with Your Mother’s Drama with Ashley Oerman · 46 minJournalist Ashley Oerman joins Whitney to talk about her new book, Motherf*cked: How to Stop Your Mother's Toxic Drama from Ruining Your Life, and the low contact relationship…
- Can Emotionally Immature Parents Change? · 34 minA listener spent years hoping her two divorced, emotionally immature parents would finally take accountability, only to watch the same excuses repeat with new partners. Whitney…
- Why Does Every Dysfunctional Family Need A Scapegoat? · 37 minEvery dysfunctional family needs somewhere to put the blame, and one person usually ends up holding it for everyone else. Whitney traces the history of the word scapegoat, then…
- When You're Forced to Fix What You Didn't Break · 28 minWhitney answers two listener questions this week: one from a woman who's been cut off by her parents because of her marriage and another from a woman who found her family…
- Raising Conscious Sons and Daughters with Dr. Shefali Tsabary · 41 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, violence against women, and past abuse. Whitney talks with Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of the twin…
- Does Estrangement End? · 43 minWhitney answers questions from listeners. The first from a woman who despite living blocks from her aging father can’t seem to connect with him. The second question is from a…
- Low Effort Families with Dr. Sherrie Campbell · 1 h 10 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of childhood physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and the death of a parent. Psychologist Dr. Sherrie Campbell, creator of…
- When No Contact Doesn't Stop the Contact · 28 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of emotional abuse, ongoing harassment, and a mention of suicidal ideation. In this Q&A episode, Whitney answers a woman…
- Abuse and Estrangement in Christian Fundamentalism with Stephanie Warren · 1 h 0 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and corporal punishment. Stephanie Warren was taught that her parents beating her was proof of their love…
- I Asked For Space and They Sued Me · 25 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and domestic violence. In this Q&A episode, answers a question from a woman whose parents responded to her…
- Why Can't I Be Me When I'm With You? · 41 minPeople don't walk into a therapist's office and say they're having a differentiation problem. They say they feel like a different person around their family, or that they have a…
- My Estrangement is Giving Me Migraines and Stomachaches · 28 minIn this Q&A episode, Whitney answers two questions from listening asking what their responsibility is to people who aren’t going to change. In question one: a stepmom asks how…
- The Lindsay Clancy Trial · 1 h 2 minContent warning: This episode discusses suicide, postpartum psychosis, and the deaths of children, and includes detailed discussion of the Lindsay Clancy case. The Lindsay…
- When a Parent Pulls Away · 29 minIn this Q&A episode, Whitney answers questions about parents who pull back instead of facing accountability. In question one: a father goes silent for a year after his daughter…
- What it’s Like On Both Sides of Estrangment With Kreed Revere · 45 minContent warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and references to sexual abuse. Kreed, host of the Estranged Heart Podcast, shares her perspective as both a…
