Q&A: Becoming Like Your Parent
Whitney explores patterns around adult children who mimic their parents' harmful behaviors, the complexities of maintaining boundaries when a parent struggles with addiction, and how illness can be we...
2 Okt 202523min
Analyzing Prime Video's The Girlfriend | Mother-Son Enmeshment and Emotional Incest
Whitney analyzes the Amazon Prime show "The Girlfriend" to explore mother-son enmeshment and emotional incest. She analyzes how the show illustrates blurred boundaries, guilt and manipulation, marital...
30 Sep 202536min
Break Up with the Rage Economy
Whitney reflects on how the "rage economy" of social media and news is destroying our mental health and capacity to connect with others. She explores how algorithms reward inflammatory content that ke...
25 Sep 202522min
Therapists Analyze the Viral Estranged Parents Video
Whitney Goodman teams up with therapist Kate Gray (@codependencykate) to analyze a viral YouTube video from an estranged parent with over 1.2 million views. They break down common patterns of defensiv...
23 Sep 20251h 13min
The Enabling Parent Dilemma
Whitney breaks down dysfunctional family dynamics in Real Housewives of Miami and The Summer I Turned Pretty, then answers a caller's question about healing from the pain of having an enabling parent ...
18 Sep 202525min
How the Fawn Response Outsmarts Danger with Dr. Ingrid Clayton
Whitney Goodman interviews Dr. Ingrid Clayton about her new book "Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back." They explore fawning as the fourth trauma respo...
16 Sep 202536min
The Psychology Behind Netflix's Documentary: Unknown Number
SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains major spoilers for the Netflix documentary "Unknown Number: The High School Catfish"Whitney analyzes the Netflix documentary by exploring the psychology behind e...
11 Sep 202536min
The Divorce Myth: What Actually Harms Children vs. What Helps Them Heal with Michelle Dempsey-Multack
Whitney interviews Michelle Dempsey-Multack about how to protect children during divorce and co-parenting. They debunk the myth that divorce inherently harms children, exploring how the quality of the...
9 Sep 202547min
