Unfollowing Mum

Exploring the challenges and complex emotions of celebrating Mother's Day with toxic or estranged parents, self-gaslighting in estranged relationships, feelings of failure, and strategies for reframing the holiday and finding peace.

Host Harriet Shearsmith talks to Abbey Williams about the importance of community, estrangement grief, and cycle breaking. They discuss the significance of community in healing and overcoming loneliness, emotional abuse from mothers, breaking cycles and consciously choosing parenting styles, setting boundaries and cutting ties, and the importance of creating a supportive family.

Exploring the lack of self in adult children of toxic parents, including challenges, mother wounds, erosion of identity, struggle to find true voice, childhood memories, difficulties in self-discovery in a toxic environment.

In this episode host Harriet Shearsmith chats to Helene Rabbitt about her lived experience of estrangement from alcoholic and abusive parents. Lived experiences are a cornerstone of Unfollowing Mum pod, there is comfort in shared experience and knowing that you are not alone. Helene discusses how she found the strength to cut ties with her abusive, alcoholic parents and how childhood trauma has impacted her life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mentor and self worth coach Michaila Tyson discusses the Motherwound. They explore reparenting, healing from a dysfunctional or toxic dynamic with a mother, mothering without a positive role model, and the importance of setting boundaries and challenging negative thoughts.

On this episode, host Harriet Shearsmith talks about the legality behind cutting off toxic grandparents and talking to children about estrangement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast explores gratitude towards parents, the concept of scapegoating in family dynamics, and the resistance to accountability. It also discusses generational differences in understanding gratitude and the validity of different perspectives in sibling dynamics.

This podcast explores dysfunctional and toxic parent-child relationships and aims to break the silence on emotional abuse. The host shares their own experiences and discusses enmeshment as a form of abuse. They also delve into the challenges of establishing a healthier relationship with a controlling mother and navigating estrangement between grandparents and grandchildren. The impact of social media on parent-child relationships is also explored.

A podcast for cycle breakers by someone who has been there, who has navigated estrangement, toxic family dynamics and generational trauma in a digital age where setting boundaries has never been harder. You are not alone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.