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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week our listener struggles to put boundaries in with her father who always acts hurt and wounded when she does. After a lifetime of being depended on emotionally by him, she asks, how can I have healthy boundaries with him? Listen to Katie and Helen look at this difficult situation from all angles and […]
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 […]
Our listener this week was constantly side swiped by news about her absent father’s new children, and relied on heavily by her mother to parent her younger siblings. Now as an adult with a life and career of her own, still supporting her youngest sibling we answer the question – How do we live with […]
This week we are releasing an episode of The Freudian Slip all about the enabling parent, what it looks like and how to come to terms with the grief of realising that the safe parent perhaps wasn’t what they seemed. In Sight is sponsored by Pinch of Nom! Buy their amazing new cookbook Enjoy here […]
For the Freudian Slip and to support us please go to our Patreon The invisible child is the rarest of family roles, and this week Katie and Helen identify a listener who may be just that. Listen to understand how the narcissistic parent impacts relationships past and present. Helen’s Amazon Store We’re writing a […]
For the Freudian Slip and to support us please go to our Patreon This week our listener is an only child trying to find a way to manage boundaries with her ‘relenteless’ parents. Their constant disrespect of her needs and boundaries, and total disinterest in her life has our listener desperate for a different […]
For the Freudian Slip and to support us please go to our Patreon This week we loook at how a mother relies on her daughter to manage dad’s feelings. Our listener has spent years believing she’s the golden child, but is she? Gabor Mate – The Body Says No The Body Keeps the Score […]
