When a Parent Pulls Away
In 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 discovers he secretly b...
27 Elo 29min
What it’s Like On Both Sides of Estrangment With Kreed Revere
Content 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 formerly estranged adult ...
25 Elo 44min
My Parents Welcomed Their Estrangment
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, child abuse, and suicidal ideation.In this Q&A episode, Whitney answers questions about families who respond with denial when ...
20 Elo 39min
Are We in an Estrangement Epidemic?
Rin Reczek spent two decades studying families before she turned her research toward estrangement. What she found in the data took her by complete surprise. In this conversation, the sociologist and ...
18 Elo 54min
What to Do if You Inherit an Estrangement
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of self-harm, physical and emotional abuse, and a parent expressing suicidal ideation.We spend a lot of time talking about the person who decides to...
13 Elo 56min
"Your Parents Were Children Too" Has Been Weaponized
We have the cure for estrangement: just see your parents as children too. Easy. Case closed. [Read: sarcasm] In this episode, Whitney traces where this sometimes helpful and sometimes very unhelpful i...
11 Elo 31min
The Court Gave My Estranged Mother-in-Law Access to My Kids
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of suicidal ideation, child abuse and neglect, childhood sexual abuse, and abortion.Whitney answers two questions about accepting a family situation...
6 Elo 39min
We Tried to Set One Boundary and Lost 40 Family Members with Jon and Ashley Lefrandt
If you've spent time in the estrangement conversation online, you've noticed how fast it flattens into two camps: the people who cut off and the people who got cut off. Ashley and Jon Lefrandt have li...
4 Elo 1h 15min
