I Have a Confession
Whitney has taken estranged parents' bait for the last time, and it's time to set the record straight.Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home...
10 Feb 41min
Boundary Violations During Crisis and Parents Who Refuse Therapy
Whitney answers two listener questions about harm that happened during a crisis and harm that accumulated over years. One listener is navigating repeated boundary violations from in-laws during her hu...
5 Feb 21min
How Parental Rejection Embeds Into Your Nervous System
Parental rejection hurts more than almost any other kind of rejection, and it’s a pain that doesn't dissolve with age. If you've ever minimized what happened by saying "they just weren't that affectio...
3 Feb 14min
College Students Going No Contact With Their Parents
Whitney responds to a Facebook post from parents who feel blindsided by their college-age child who suddenly asks for no contact. She breaks down how the wrong response from parents can push the relat...
29 Jan 28min
Why Parenting Has Changed and Isn't Going Back
If you've ever felt like the relationship you have with your parents or with your adult child looks completely different from the one that your parents had with their parents, you’re not imagining it....
27 Jan 24min
Reacting to Real Letters from Estranged Parents to Their Children
Whitney reviews anonymous letters written by estranged parents to their adult children. She identifies patterns of spiritual bypassing disguised as kindness, conditional accountability, minimization o...
22 Jan 37min
Surface Level Relationships Might Actually Be a Good Idea
In this episode, Whitney challenges the idea that all family relationships need to be deep, emotional, and vulnerable. “Strategic authenticity” is the idea of intentionally choosing what parts of your...
20 Jan 25min
Q&A: The Authoritarian Parenting Style
Whitney defines what authoritarian parenting actually is (beyond just being strict), explores how it's rooted in control rather than raising independent humans, and explains why these parents struggle...
15 Jan 34min
