The FOG: When Fear Follows You into Adulthood
For anyone who experienced a childhood in which emotional safely or physical safety weren't consistent, stable and predictable, Fear, Obligation and Guilt — will be the dominant emotions controlling t...
14 Elo 37min
Am I a Bad Daughter for Not Wanting to Care for My Mother? (S6 Ep.10)
What happens when you realise your relationship with your mother has been shaped by emotional parentification, enmeshment, and emotional abuse? In this week’s letter, a 48-year-old woman shares how mu...
7 Elo 49min
Am I Mad For Even Wanting to Try? (S6 Ep.8)
How do I build and maintain a boundaried relationship with narcissistic parents? Or am I mad for even wanting to try? This week, a listener asks: What happens when the parents who hurt you are finally...
24 Heinä 1h 2min
Am I The Only One? (S6 Ep.7)
"I feel stupid for tolerating it for so long" This week's listener grew up in a narcissistic evangelical family where religion was used to justify fear, control and abuse. As the eldest child, she be...
17 Heinä 1h 25min
Does Illness Change Everything? (S6 Ep.6)
When you finally find the strength to go no contact with abusive parents, it can feel like the hardest decision you'll ever make. But what when of those parents becomes seriously ill? This week we he...
10 Heinä 49min
Narcissism or Neurodivergent? (S6 Ep.5)
What happens when the behaviours that hurt you look similar to traits associated with autism or ADHD? Where is the line between someone struggling because they're neurodivergent and someone causing ha...
3 Heinä 52min
Emotional Eating (S6 Ep4)
For many children raised by narcissistic parents, their body becomes another battleground where they learn that who they are is never quite acceptable. Too thin? There's a problem. Too heavy? There's...
26 Kesä 1h 11min
