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
Assume that it's not just about politics, even though I do think that politics these days can be enough of a reason.
Yeah.
In the service of deepening the relationship, say, well, maybe there are other complaints that you have about me.
You know, maybe it's not just my political values.
Maybe there's things from childhood that are also bothering you or there's other parts of my personality that you find difficult.
So when I encourage parents to widen the lens, it's just a way of saying go out.
go deeper, but it's sort of a way of showing more commitment to the other person and more caring for them and more of a concern for them.
It doesn't always work.
There's nothing I can tell any particular person that I can say with confidence.
Just do this, you know, do Coleman's five steps and you're guaranteed because people are so different and are motivated by so many different factors.
But
But in terms of general principles, particularly for the parents, being able to show empathy, interest, compassion, taking responsibility, being self-reflective, being willing to go to therapy for themselves or do family therapy, those are really the key ingredients.
Well, because if you feel like something is unfair, you're probably not going to communicate in a way that your adult child needs you to communicate.
You're going to tell them that they're not being nice or that they're being mean or cruel or unfair.
And that's just not going to persuade the adult child who feels like estrangement.
is in their best interest to feel like you're really trying to grapple with what it is that they're complaining about.
They obviously feel like it is fair.
So just saying it's not fair feels to them like you're completely missing the point.
Oh, it's tough.
Yeah.
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