HeyJaredFamily Estrangement
Thoughtful writing on family estrangement and complex family relationships - from the perspectives of parents, adult children and siblings. For anyone trying to understand what went wrong, what still hurts, and what moving forward might look like.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Disinheritance and cultural context (opens the original)
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On Tuesday 6th October at 7pm BST/11am PDT/2pm EST I will be discussing emotional abuse with as well as her soon to be released book exploring the impact of growing up within a family which contained emotional abuse. Link to add to your calendar here.I’d love to ask Beverly some questions from all of you so please message me or reply on the chat thread with anything you’d like me to ask her about.In unhealthy family relati
You estranged first (opens the original)
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This week I am pleased to share a post by , LMHC, a therapeutic parent coach and couples therapist, who writes about the parent-child relationship from both sides — as a clinician and as an adult child who's lived through estrangement herself.If you’d like to share your experience or expertise on this Substack, then leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you.Therapy is changing. We are moving away from the idea of the therapist as a neutral “blank slate,” quietly aiding a client’s self-disco
Alcoholism and estrangement (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who listened into my live video with Monica Cardenas, PhD! This month we were discussing Nick Flynn’s memoir describing his childhood with an absent father who then returned to his life once Nick started working in a homeless shelter. We chose this book from <a href="https://open.substack.com/users/18026840-jenny-bartoy?utm_source=men
The grief that doesn’t end (opens the original)
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This Tuesday 8th September at 7pm BST/11am PDT/2pm EST. I will be discussing Nick Flynn’s memoir with . Nick Flynn first met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from his estranged father who was a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. The memoir tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his f
What is emotional abuse? (opens the original)
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This week I am pleased to share a post by psychotherapist and author . Beverly has written a soon-to-be released book exploring the impact of growing up within a family which contained emotional abuse. If you’d like to share your experience or expertise on this Substack, then leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you.I also now have a policy on the use of AI and citations in guest articles.</
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