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by Andrea Ashley
Adult Child dives deep into the lasting effects of growing up in dysfunctional families—unpacking complex and relational trauma, codependency, toxic shame, and addiction patterns with raw vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity. Hosted by Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, each episode shares unfiltered insights, expert conversations, and practical tools to heal your nervous system and break free from the cycles that hold you back. Whether you’re an adult child of alcoholics or from a dysfunctional family, navigating toxic relationships, or healing your inner child, this is your no-BS space for healing.
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- Today33 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #229 – I'll Be Okay When...
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 3 days ago1h 5m
255 - How Your Inner Child Shows Up in Love: The Wounds That Decide Who You Choose w/ Galit Atlas
Everything that helped you survive childhood costs you something as an adult. Love is usually where you pay.Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst, an NYU faculty member, and author of Emotional Inheritance and her new book, Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy. As a kid, her closest friend was her diary, because it would never hurt her, disappoint her, or leave. This is a conversation about the six wounded inner children we carry into adulthood, and why love is where they show up the loudest.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Choosing the Safe, Empty Partner - Why the frightened child often avoids repeating chaos by choosing someone less available, and how that safety slowly turns into a relationship that feels empty.▪️ Parenting From Your Own Wounds - Why giving your kid the parent you wished you had can be a conversation with your own fantasy instead of your actual child, and what it looks like when a kid is asking for more structure.▪️ Leaving Volatile vs. Empty Relationships - Why both are hard to walk away from: in the volatile one you keep trying to convince them you’re good, and in the empty one you’re convinced you’re crazy for wanting more.▪️ Chosen Child vs. Golden Child - The difference between being picked to meet a parent’s emotional needs and being picked to make them look good, and why the threat for not delivering is usually louder than any praise.▪️ Meeting Your Needs in Secret - How guilty children learn to take care of themselves behind closed doors, like taking a nap and saying they were on a call, and why asking directly is the real work.🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 134 | Avoidant Attachment and Romantic Relationship Pitfalls for ACA’s with Dr. Sofya Vass▪️ Ep 252 | Toxic Guilt: Why You Feel Like You’re in Trouble When You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong▪️ Ep 227 | Daughters of Narcissistic Fathers: The Golden Child’s Grief w/ Taylor Pearl-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 1 weeks ago35 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #228 – The Other Place We Grew Up: School
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 1 weeks ago1h 14m
254 - Big Baffling Behaviors: What Your Kid’s Hardest Moments Are Really About w/ Robyn Gobbel
Kids who expect to be rejected find a way to get rejected. It isn’t manipulation. It’s prediction.Robyn Gobbel is a children’s mental health expert, host of The Baffling Behavior Show, and author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors and its new companion guided journal. Before she moved into training professionals, she spent years as a play therapist for kids with complex trauma, including one child she saw nearly every week from age six until he was eighteen. This is a conversation about why kids do things that make no sense, and why the parents raising them so often feel like every next move will be wrong.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Disorganized Attachment in Kids - What happens when the person a child runs to for safety is also the source of danger, and why that no-way-out experience shows up as the most baffling behavior of all.▪️ When Parents Feel Stuck Too - How parents of dysregulated kids end up feeling like every next move will make things worse, and how that reaction can reenact the very experience their child is trying to heal from.▪️ Overreacting to Your Kid - How to trace why a lie about homework sets off a life-or-death reaction in your body, using a “what would be bad about that?” chain to find the fear actually driving the moment.▪️ Where Parents Get Repair Wrong - The three ways it goes sideways: processing every rupture until it feels perfectly clean, avoiding repair for fear of setting things off again, and never noticing the rupture at all.▪️ Siblings of a Struggling Kid - Why the goal isn’t keeping siblings from being impacted, and how shared family language helps them make sense of their own resentment without blaming themselves.▪️ Grieving Your Family’s Story - The grief of realizing this isn’t the family you pictured, and why being honest about the impact helps more than trying to fix everything.🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 101 | The Neuroscience of Toxic Shame w/ Robyn Gobbel▪️ Ep 203 | The Nervous System Side of Attachment: Understanding Anxiety, Avoidance & Safety Through the Body w/ Heidi Priebe▪️Ep 208 | When Each Parent Leaves a Different Scar: From Attachment Wounds to Parenting Triggers, Rage & Repair w/ Amber Trejo-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 2 weeks ago47 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #227 – Sibling Dynamics: Same Household, Different Childhood
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 2 weeks ago57 min
253 - Leaving a High-Control Religion: Breaking Free of the Shame That Binds You w/ Crystal Hamilton
She was told anyone who leaves the church becomes an addict and ends up miserable. She did become an addict. She isn’t miserable.Crystal Hamilton is a counselor, 12 years sober, and the author of Drowning in Doctrine. She grew up the youngest of six in a Mormon home, where she learned early that her job was to stay quiet and not cause problems. This is a conversation about leaving a high-control religion, and why the shame it taught you keeps showing up long after you stop believing.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Shame in High-Control Religion - Why the blame always lands on you and never on the teachings, and why that’s the piece that takes the longest to unlearn.▪️ Repeating Your Parents’ Patterns - How you can see exactly what your family got wrong and still catch yourself doing it, and why that realization is often where the real work begins.▪️ Loving Someone in Active Addiction - How to hold firm boundaries with a family member who’s using while still supporting their recovery, and why you can feel hopeful and terrified at the same time.▪️ When Your Partner Stops Growing - Why it’s so hard to tell whether the distance is your own avoidance or a real gap, and how far “live and let live” can actually go in a marriage.▪️ Sibling Violence - Why violence between siblings so often gets dismissed as normal fighting, by parents and even by CPS, and what it teaches the kid on the receiving end about keeping the peace.▪️ Lifespan Integration Therapy - How this offshoot of EMDR uses a timeline of memory cues to bring a younger you into the present, and why you can heal without retelling every detail of what happened.🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 103 | Religious Trauma & Abuse w/ Dr. Laura Anderson▪️ Ep 217 | Good Kid, Quiet Wreckage: Relational Shame, the Silent Treatment & The War You Waged on Yourself w/ Maggie Nick▪️ Ep 213 | The Truth About Estrangement: Boundaries, No Contact & Grief w/ Dr. Sharon Martin-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 3 weeks ago35 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #226 – James M.
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 3 weeks ago48 min
252 - Toxic Guilt: Why You Feel Like You’re in Trouble When You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
If you feel guilty for shit you didn’t even do, this one’s for you. Toxic guilt isn’t feedback on what you did. It’s a verdict on who you are, and you can’t apologize your way out of a verdict. And today we’re unpacking all the ways it shows up in your life, the childhood experiences that wired it into you, and how to actually heal it through Internal Family Systems (IFS) and polyvagal theory.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Six Fears Behind Toxic Guilt - What each one sounds like in your head, from “someone’s going to be mad at me” to “it’s all going to go to shit,” and the behavior each one drives you toward.▪️ The Inner Critic and Shame Cycle - How your inner critic, a young shame part, and your escaping parts keep each other going, and why you can’t break the cycle by silencing just one of them.▪️ Shame as a Survival Response - Why slumping, looking away, and going quiet made you less of a target as a kid, and why your body still does it when you’re not in danger.▪️ Guilt Over Rest and Pleasure - Why toxic guilt doesn’t need anyone else in the room, and how it makes resting, buying something nice, or having a bad day feel like something you’re getting away with.▪️ Polyvagal Tools for Toxic Guilt - How naming the state instead of the story, doing the physical opposite of collapse, and reaching out for co-regulation start to tell your body something new.🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 190 | The Purpose of Our Pain: IFS Therapy to Heal Complex Trauma w/ Tammy Sollenberger▪️ Ep 241 | Inside an Emotional Flashback: Recognizing One, Surviving One & What's Underneath▪️ Ep 167 | Gaslighting, Imposter Syndrome & Emotional Attunement w/ Amelia Kelley-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Adult Child dives deep into the lasting effects of growing up in dysfunctional families—unpacking complex and relational trauma, codependency, toxic shame, and addiction patterns with raw vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity. Hosted by Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, each episode shares unfiltered insights, expert conversations, and practical tools to heal your nervous system and break free from the cycles that hold you back. Whether you’re an adult child of alcoholics or from a dysfunctional family, navigating toxic relationships, or healing your inner child, this is your no-BS space for healing.
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