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Content 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 the holidays. One listener finally enjoys the holidays since skipping her authoritarian parents' Christmas and wants to know what happens when she runs out of excuses. Another listener asks w...
You 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 Instagram about the hardest parts of the holidays. A handful of themes emerged including grief, other people's expectations, faking it, and watching everyone else's family. She also speaks to the parents a...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of childhood emotional neglect, verbal and physical abuse, and parental abduction.
How does a grandmother who was loving and steady to you raise a daughter who couldn't be? A fellow therapist writes in about exactly that, and Whitney offers a gentler way to hold both truths at once. In the second letter, a liste...
Whitney 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 actual 2016 research, then walks through decades of data that make the case these harms aren't new, just newly named.
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Content 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 secrets. She asks Whitney how to heal and move forward after finally breaking a cycle her parents and grandparents never did. Whitney draws the line between a parent's past regret and a chi...