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.
243 episodes transcribedContent 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...
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of suicidal ideation, child abuse and neglect, childhood sexual abuse, and abortion.Whitney answer...
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 peopl...
Content warning: This episode contains a description of a traumatic birth, postpartum complications, and abuse.Before the Q&A, Whitney opens with...
“He's been hard since the day he was born.” “Something in her is just off, and always has been.” “Is there something broken with my child?” Whitney tr...
How do you keep giving to a relationship that isn't giving much back? How do you know when you've finally done enough? In this Q&A episode, Whitne...
Something goes wrong at home. A glass tips over. Someone forgot to change the laundry, unload the dishwasher. The dog escapes. Within seconds there's...
