79. Will I Ever Be Close To My Sisters?

This week our listener asks ‘how can I be closer with my sisters?’. After years of triangulation, and with mum still playing favourites, can they ever be close? Listen to Katie and Helen look at this difficult situation from […]

75. Am I betraying my parents by writing to you?

This week Katie & Helen hear from a listener who feels as though she is betraying her parents by writing to into the podcast, but desperately wants to know to know how to keep herself as the adult in […]

67. Am I Wrong To Ghost My Mother?

Our listener this week asks if after a lifetime of being ignored, rejected, left alone with her dying father – is she justified in ghosting her mother? Listen to Katie and Helen look at this difficult situation from all […]

60. Why Didn’t My Dad Protect Me?

What do you do when your stepmother insists you treat her as though she was your biological mother? After her mother died when she was 2, our listener’s dad married a woman who insisted she was called mum, and […]

51. Why do my Sisters Leave Me Out?

This week our listener asks for help navigating the relationships with her sisters who seem to exclude and belittle her, and aren’t sharing her joy for a long tried for pregnancy. Katie and Helen look at what’s going on and offer advice and insight in trying to move forward.  For the Freudian Slip and to […]

52. Should I Invite Her to my Wedding?

This week our listener has a very difficult decision to make. Should she invite her mother to her wedding to protect her sisters, or should she maintain her 7 years no contact to protect herself?  Listen to Katie and Helen look at this difficult decision from all angles and offer their insight into what’s going […]

46. Narcissistic Parent = Narcissistic Grandparent

For the Freudian Slip and to support us please go to our Patreon This week our listener asks how to help her son, the golden grandchild cope with her choice to go no contact with her mother, his grandmother.  We explore how our listener’s mother destroys boundaries over and over again, and how she prioritsed […]