Latest / CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT
"Your Parents Were Children Too" Has Been Weaponized
We have the cure for estrangement: just see your parents as children too. Easy. Case closed. [Read: sarcasm] In this episode, Whitney traces where this sometimes helpful and sometimes very unhelpful idea came from and shows how something genuinely useful got turned into a permanent exit ramp from accountability.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How "your parents were children too" worked its way into self-help
- Why unfinished business has to move upward or outward, never down to your own children
- What defensiveness in a parent is usually protecting
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage…
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