
When History Repeats: The Golden Child Gets Betrayed
In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores a difficult and personal topic: how abusive family dynamics can scale into larger systems, and what happens when legal authority functions like an abusiv...
2 Mar 37min

My Highschool Bully
In this episode, Patrick, explores why memories of school bullies can still feel visceral years later, even after you have done a lot of healing work. Using a poll with over 2,000 participants, Patric...
25 Feb 34min

The Feeling of Being “In Trouble”
In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores the baseline feeling of being “in trouble”, that constant sense that someone is mad at you, you did something wrong, or you are about to be shamed. He br...
11 Feb 19min

Ireland—Where Flashbacks Pass Away
In this episode, Patrick shares a personal story about what it can look like when long-held trauma responses begin to loosen after years of recovery work and how flashbacks can shift into quieter mome...
4 Feb 29min

Was This Your Family? (9 Oddly Specific Family Issues)
In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores nine rarely named but deeply damaging family dynamics that quietly shape childhood trauma and follow people into adulthood. Rather than focusing on sympt...
16 Jan 34min

5 Types of Lost Childhood Personalities
This episode explores how childhood trauma and emotionally unsafe parenting can cause us to lose touch with our original personality, the self we were born with before survival, compliance, and shame ...
5 Jan 28min

Why Are Victims Expected to Do All the Work?
This episode tells the story of Thomas, a survivor who went no contact with his abusive father after a public meltdown at his wedding, and how the world around him quietly blames him for the relations...
17 Nov 202524min

Toxic Mothers and the Impact on Daughters
This episode explores how growing up with a toxic or emotionally unavailable mother can shape a daughter’s sense of worth, identity, and boundaries, and how to finally break free. Rather than focusing...
24 Okt 202546min



















