Dr. Joshua Coleman

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727 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Good Life Project · Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say. · 9 Jul 2026 podcast
So it's reasonable to have some foot in hope.
But you can't live there because there's such a thing as pathological hope and radical acceptance.
if you're in the midst of an estrangement is a much better position psychologically because you're not white knuckling it through life you know you're not telling yourself oh god if i can't live again unless i see my have my child or my grandchildren in it now you have to have some acceptance that that this is the way that it is and may continue to be yeah um the last defensive move here for lack of a better phrasing um assuming that the distance is all about you
Right, because by the time we have adult children, you know, they're front and center of our consciousness, and particularly if we have grandchildren.
You know, we're thinking about them all the time in one form or another.
But for our adult children, they're not thinking about us all the time.
I mean, I think of my parents.
They weren't really front and center of my mind in the way that my children and grandchild is thinking.
for me.
And I just assume that's true of my adult children and other people's adult children as well.
People, younger generations are preoccupied with their own marriages or their divorces or raising their children or their careers or their social lives.
Parents are pretty far down the list.
So a lot of what parents personalize these days may not have anything to do with the relationship.
But a worsening aspect of that is just cell phone use has made it that the parent can feel rejected.
There's thousands of ways a parent can feel rejected.
If they send a text or they send an email and there's not an immediate response, it's like, well, what does that mean?
Does my child hate me?
Why aren't they responding?
And I wrote them 12 hours ago.
I still haven't heard back.
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