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
We've become much more of a therapy culture.
Therapists have become the new high priest in terms of determining who should be kept in or outside of our lives.
And therapists have become what the sociologist Alison Pugh calls detachment brokers, meaning they're people who sort of help us to detach from people that in other generations we'd feel obligated to be involved with.
So therapy and therapists as being one of the primary ways that we
make sense of our relationships has also become incredibly important.
And alongside of that, Instagram influencers, social media influencers, where people kind of collect and form communities in an increasingly fractured society, high rates of divorce is quite common.
quite common rising rates of individualism.
You know, as a society, we have the highest rates of individualism than any other culture on earth.
And individualism is important because with an individualistic culture, you're preoccupied with my own identity, my own personal happiness, my own personal growth, and getting rid of the people who stand in the way of that.
So there's been this kind of confluence of factors that have really served as amplifiers of estrangement.
well no i mean i think there's a good news bad news here where prior generations couldn't really legitimately and in many cultures still couldn't cut out a legitimate right abusive family member because there'd just be so much social pressure and people who cut out a truly abusive family member even in our society still will experience some pressure from either siblings or grandparents or
or whatever.
But today, people have many more advocates to support them in their estrangement.
They have therapists, they have online communities, they've got books, etc.
And that is a good thing that people aren't obligated to be close to or expose themselves to people who are truly hurtful and destructive.
So it's not an unambiguous, terrible thing, but it's a good news, bad news kind of a change.
Incredibly problematic.
And it's all part of being this individualistic culture where we're very preoccupied with our own
boundaries and happiness.
And when that is the case, then cutting out people becomes this kind of virtuous act of self-protection and assertiveness.
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