Whitney Goodman is a licensed marriage and family therapist and author on a mission to help adult family members have better relationships. Each week, Whitney has conversations with influential guests and real people to help listeners find new ways of looking at old family problems. Calling Home is available every Tuesday and Thursday wherever you get your podcasts.
249 episodes transcribedWhitney is fed up with how the "concept creep" of estrangement gets used to shut down conversations about real family harm. She traces the t...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse, sexual abuse of a child, infidelity, and family estrangement.A listener writes in...
Journalist Ashley Oerman joins Whitney to talk about her new book, Motherf*cked: How to Stop Your Mother's Toxic Drama from Ruining Your Life, and...
A listener spent years hoping her two divorced, emotionally immature parents would finally take accountability, only to watch the same excuses repeat...
Every dysfunctional family needs somewhere to put the blame, and one person usually ends up holding it for everyone else. Whitney traces the history o...
Whitney answers two listener questions this week: one from a woman who's been cut off by her parents because of her marriage and another from a wo...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, violence against women, and past abuse.Whitney talks with Dr. Shefali Tsabar...
Whitney answers questions from listeners. The first from a woman who despite living blocks from her aging father can’t seem to connect with him. The s...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of childhood physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and the death of a parent. Psychologist D...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of emotional abuse, ongoing harassment, and a mention of suicidal ideation.In this Q&A episode...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and corporal punishment. Stephanie Warren was taught that her parents beating...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and domestic violence.In this Q&A episode, answers a question from a woman whos...
People don't walk into a therapist's office and say they're having a differentiation problem. They say they feel like a different person around their...
In this Q&A episode, Whitney answers two questions from listening asking what their responsibility is to people who aren’t going to change. In que...
In this Q&A episode, Whitney answers questions about parents who pull back instead of facing accountability. In question one: a father goes silent...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of child abuse and references to sexual abuse.Kreed, host of the Estranged Heart Podcast, shares h...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, child abuse, and suicidal ideation.In this Q&A episode, Whitney answers...
Rin Reczek spent two decades studying families before she turned her research toward estrangement. What she found in the data took her by comple...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of self-harm, physical and emotional abuse, and a parent expressing suicidal ideation.We spend a l...
We have the cure for estrangement: just see your parents as children too. Easy. Case closed. [Read: sarcasm] In this episode, Whitney traces where thi...
