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
As a parent, it's human nature to want to defend, to want to explain, to want to prove them wrong.
But it doesn't really work.
It just makes the child feel unseen and unheard and ultimately uncared about.
And the thing that works better than anything is interest and empathy and taking responsibility and being open and willing to
to find the kernel if not the bushel of truth in the child's complaints and if you don't know what they are to say well it's clear that i have blind spots as a person or as a parent that i don't have a better understanding of why you need to do this but i really want to learn and i hope you'll let me know and i promise to listen and not not defend myself so can we work on this together kind of thing let's deepen a bit into what that actually looks like
Yeah, I think, well, first of all, if I'm just meeting with a parent, then it's a matter of taking a thorough history.
I'll often want to see the correspondence between them and the adult child.
Sometimes parents will say, well, I have no idea.
And then if I see the correspondence, I'll feel like, well, it's actually right there in that last email to you.
So I'm interested in how the parent communicates, but also how the adult child communicates, just as a matter of kind of an analysis of the problem.
And kind of ask, what is the adult child wanting from the parent?
What are they wanting them to acknowledge and
Is the parent capable of acknowledging it?
If they disagree, are they capable of setting asides the way that they disagree for the time being and just being interested or compassionate?
So let's say, for example, the adult child says, well, I learned in therapy that you're a narcissist.
You know, let's say the parent knows that they're not a narcissist.
They're not going to get anywhere saying, look, I've been in therapy.
Nobody's ever accused me of being a narcissist.
You're full of crap or whatever.
It's just not going to work.
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