Dysfunctional
Episodes
Toxic Relationship Recovery with Jo Westwood
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dysfunctional, I’m joined by relationship recovery coach Jo Westwood for a deep, honest conversation about toxic relationships, c...
When Your Parent Is Murdered | Alex Williams on Childhood Trauma
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Williams was eight years old when his mum was murdered by his stepfather.In this episode, Alex shares what it’s really like to grow up after ex...
When Your Voice Has Trauma Too with Claire Delaney
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma doesn’t just live in your head. It can shut down your voice too. Vocal coach Claire Delaney joins me to talk C-PTSD, nervous system survival,...
How Do You Talk Someone Down From Extreme Violence? with Jared Shurin
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I’m joined by Jared Shurin, a strategic communications specialist who works in counter extremism, violent radicalisation, misinforma...
Inside a Shame Storm with Melinda Delisle
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if those moments where you’re convinced you’re a horrible person who “shouldn’t even be here” aren’t proof that you’re broken… bu...
National Children With a Parent In Prison Day
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Children with a parent in prison are some of the most invisible kids in the country. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah (founder of charity Childr...
1 Year of Dysfunctional
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unbelievably, it has been 1 year since Dysfunctional began so I take a look back over the highs and lows Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
What Makes Someone a Toxic Person?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Josh talks about:Why the phrase “toxic person” makes some people more uncomfortable than abuse itselfThe difference between “peo...
Acceptance Without Forgiveness: Suicide, Trauma, and Taking Your Life Back with Maike Mullenders
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maike is the author of The Confession: A Journey to Acceptance, her memoir of growing up with a father with undiagnosed mental health issues who went ...
The System Is Sick: Time to Let Humans Feel with Auroara Leigh
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We call it “mental health,” but what if the real diagnosis is a sick system? Wellness anthropologist Aurora Leigh joins Josh to argue that disconn...
Is the Mental Health Conversation Making Us Sicker?
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode includes candid references to suicide, depression and self-harm.It’s just been World Mental Health Day. I’m asking a hard question wi...
Highly Sensitive in a Hyper-Triggering World
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode of Dysfunctional, Josh asks a raw question:Is the world actually worse, or are we just being fed constant content that keeps us t...
What School Never Taught Us About Work with Hasan Khair
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Old friends. Real talk. A mini 115 Miles reunion.Hasan Khair joins me to unpack why work feels like a moving target and what to do when the ladder you...
From Golden Child to Scapegoat with Lauren Smallcomb
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Smallcomb grew up the “golden child” at home and in church. When compassion widened and questions came, the role cracked. We get into:Golde...
Breaking the Cycle: A Mother & Son’s Journey from Estrangement to Repair with Teresa and Cody
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Josh sits down with Theresa and her son Cody for one of the rawest and most hopeful conversations yet.Cody shares what it was like to...
Is Psychiatry Built on Lies? With Dr. Jessica Taylor
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if everything you’ve been told about mental illness… isn’t true?In this raw and uncompromising episode of Dysfunctional, I sit down with ps...
How We Fail SEND Families with Debra Paynter
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dysfunctional, Josh sits down with Debra Paynter — business manager, single parent, and advocate — for a raw conversation about...
The Day I Stopped Forgiving My Mother with Dr. Sherrie Campbell
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Josh sits down with Dr. Sherrie Campbell — psychologist, author, and unapologetic disruptor in the toxic fa...
Healing from Toxic Family Systems with Patrick Teahan
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dysfunctional, I’m joined by therapist and childhood trauma expert Patrick Teahan for a raw and powerful conversat...
Hate Yachts, Not Dinghies: Class, Control & Political Punk with Hyphen
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the same coercive control you grew up with in your family is playing out on a societal scale—and no one’s supposed to name it?In this unap...
What No One Tells You About Parental Imprisonment With Georgina And LuLu
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw and emotional episode, I sit down with Lulu and Georgina—two sisters who grew up in the chaos of having a father in prison. What starts ...
Capitalism, Consciousness, and Narcissistic Parents, with Christian John
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bold and unfiltered episode, I’m joined by Christian John — a truth-teller who walked away from a toxic family system and now uses his pla...
Raised in a Cult to Finding Healing, with Karinne
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse, religious trauma, suicide attempts, and domestic violence. Please listen...
The Wellness Industry Is Just Another Coping Mechanism with Sam Miller
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think they’re broken. Most people think dysregulation is a problem. Most people think the answer is to regulate, reframe, or reset.But w...
Reclaiming Sensitivity: The Truth About HSPs, Kids, and Healing with Dr Genevieve von Lob
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m joined by the brilliant Dr. Genevieve von Lob – clinical psychologist, conscious parenting coach, and author of Five Deep Breaths: The ...
When There's No Bad Parts with Kevin O’Neill
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh is joined by IFS coach Kevin O’Neill — the man who guided him through 10 transformational sessions of Internal Family Systems work. Together,...
I Hope This Finds You Unwell: Reclaiming My Voice after abuse, with Stéphanie St-Jean
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw and powerful conversation, I’m joined by writer and survivor Stéphanie St-Jean, whose viral piece “I Hope This Finds You Un...
Breaking Free from the System That Broke You with Helen Dudzinska
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if your burnout, your self-doubt, your struggle to belong weren’t personal problems, but symptoms of a system that was never built for you?In t...
Understanding a Toxic Person's Tactics
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever dealt with a toxic person online or in real life, this episode is for you.Josh breaks down a recent Facebook interaction that perfect...
Navigating Family Estrangement: The Unspoken Reality of Going No Contact with Karl Melvin
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What really happens when you cut ties with your own family?In this episode, I’m joined by psychologist and author Karl Melvin, whose book ...
13 Years Sober: My Journey
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply personal and vulnerable episode, Josh Connolly shares his journey to 13 years of sobriety. But this isn’t just a story about putting ...
Is Embodiment The Answer to The Self-Improvement Trap with Leona Waller
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the very first guest episode of Dysfunctional, I’m joined by writer and embodiment coach Leona Waller — and we go all in on the ...
Anger, Capitalism, and Why I Still Don’t Have It All Figured Out
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back from the bank holiday chaos with a so-called “bite-sized” episode (spoiler: it’s not). I’m checking in after a couple of messy, kid-mode ...
You Can’t Co-Parent With a Narcissist
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You can’t co-parent with a toxic person and it’s time we said that out loud.In this episode, I’m naming what so many people live through in sile...
Shall We Start a Revolution!?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, here we go... In this episode, I’m diving into what I believe might just be the most important conversation we need to be having right now....
Everything That’s Wrong With New Age Spirituality
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this 20th episode of Dysfunctional, I’m going in on everything that’s wrong with modern-day spirituality.This isn’t an anti-spiritual ra...
F the System: You’re Not Broken, the System Is
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not my longest podcast ever but boy do I go in! I am passionate about this and challenging the abusive system is my main passion from now onTackling S...
Navigating Toxic Relationships
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diving into your questions on toxic parents and dysfunctional relationships. Here is what AI thought - In this bite-sized episode of Dysfunctional, J...
Are You a Highly Sensitive Person?
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I am highly sensitive person so this subject is definitely a passion one for me. I get into in this episode and y passion clearly shines through. ...
Bad Therapy?!
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a post online about enabling therapists sparked some really powerful conversations, I had to take the opportunity to do a deep dive into therapy...
What Is Gaslighting?
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a deep dive into gaslighting, its origins, whether it is overused and why it is such an awful form of abuse. Here is what AI makes of ...
A Historic 92 Miles to Downing Street: A Fight For Children of Alcoholics
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I sat down and shared my experience of the a historic moment for children of alcoholics everywhere! Here’s what AI makes of it - Walking f...
Traits of a Child Of An Alcoholic
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is coaweek - a week to raise awareness for children of alcoholics and as a proud ambassador for Nacoa I am shouting about it all week. This episode...
Navigating Toxic Parents: Your Questions Answered
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My daughter is off school sick, so we are coming from my living room with little planning time so I used it to answer a bunch of your questions and th...
Are We Talking About Mental Health Too Much?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This one was a tricky one to tackle and I could feel my anxiety throughout the episode which means it was a needed conversation. Buckle up for this on...
I'd Rather Be The Scapegoat!
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As I hit the 10th episode, I have decided to go out of mine and your comfort zone even more. No more playing safe. I look at what's happening cultura...
Should You Forgive Your Toxic Parents?
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have wanted to do a bit of a deep dive into forgiveness for a long time and so I am glad to be able to get to do it today. I have some strong opinio...
Healing Happens in Community
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I list the 5 things I would change if I could wave a magic wand as we head into 2025. I also answer a couple of questions on toxic par...
My Food Addiction
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There wasn’t going to be an episode this week but I was inspired by a conversation around difficult relationships with food and so here we are. ...
A Very Triggered Christmas!
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As promised I chat about the reality of Christmas for a lot of people but not before talking about debating on LinkedIn and the impact it had on me an...
We Need to Talk About Children of Alcoholics
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I have fully reignited my passion for supporting the plight of children of alcoholics and I dive into why in this episode. But this not before talking...
We all Want to Belong
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I said I would bring you my honest energy each time and I definitely do that here. You are gunna get to know me on deep level if you listen in to thes...
Truth, Pain, and Toxic Dynamics
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once again I go deep on this one. The main topics are role models in the mens space and why young boys seems drawn to Andrew Tate. Then I look at why ...
People Pleasing, Emotional Intimacy & Confrontation
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I feel like the podcast has arrived with this episode. I go deep on the topics in the title and I think you are going to love it. Here is what AI said...
Embracing Authenticity and Fear
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first ever episode of Dysfunctional. In this episode I wanted to introduce you to exactly how this podcast is going to work. Me going o...