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by Andrea Ashley
Adult Child dives deep into the lasting effects of growing up in dysfunctional families—unpacking complex and relational trauma, codependency, toxic shame, and addiction patterns with raw vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity. Hosted by Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, each episode shares unfiltered insights, expert conversations, and practical tools to heal your nervous system and break free from the cycles that hold you back. Whether you’re an adult child of alcoholics or from a dysfunctional family, navigating toxic relationships, or healing your inner child, this is your no-BS space for healing.
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- 2 weeks ago47 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #227 – Sibling Dynamics: Same Household, Different Childhood
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 2 weeks ago57 min
253 - Leaving a High-Control Religion: Breaking Free of the Shame That Binds You w/ Crystal Hamilton
She was told anyone who leaves the church becomes an addict and ends up miserable. She did become an addict. She isn’t miserable.Crystal Hamilton is a counselor, 12 years sober, and the author of Drowning in Doctrine. She grew up the youngest of six in a Mormon home, where she learned early that her job was to stay quiet and not cause problems. This is a conversation about leaving a high-control religion, and why the shame it taught you keeps showing up long after you stop believing.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Shame in High-Control Religion - Why the blame always lands on you and never on the teachings, and why that’s the piece that takes the longest to unlearn.▪️ Repeating Your Parents’ Patterns - How you can see exactly what your family got wrong and still catch yourself doing it, and why that realization is often where the real work begins.▪️ Loving Someone in Active Addiction - How to hold firm boundaries with a family member who’s using while still supporting their recovery, and why you can feel hopeful and terrified at the same time.▪️ When Your Partner Stops Growing - Why it’s so hard to tell whether the distance is your own avoidance or a real gap, and how far “live and let live” can actually go in a marriage.▪️ Sibling Violence - Why violence between siblings so often gets dismissed as normal fighting, by parents and even by CPS, and what it teaches the kid on the receiving end about keeping the peace.▪️ Lifespan Integration Therapy - How this offshoot of EMDR uses a timeline of memory cues to bring a younger you into the present, and why you can heal without retelling every detail of what happened.🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 103 | Religious Trauma & Abuse w/ Dr. Laura Anderson▪️ Ep 217 | Good Kid, Quiet Wreckage: Relational Shame, the Silent Treatment & The War You Waged on Yourself w/ Maggie Nick▪️ Ep 213 | The Truth About Estrangement: Boundaries, No Contact & Grief w/ Dr. Sharon Martin-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 3 weeks ago35 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #226 – James M.
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 3 weeks ago48 min
252 - Toxic Guilt: Why You Feel Like You’re in Trouble When You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
If you feel guilty for shit you didn’t even do, this one’s for you. Toxic guilt isn’t feedback on what you did. It’s a verdict on who you are, and you can’t apologize your way out of a verdict. And today we’re unpacking all the ways it shows up in your life, the childhood experiences that wired it into you, and how to actually heal it through Internal Family Systems (IFS) and polyvagal theory.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Six Fears Behind Toxic Guilt - What each one sounds like in your head, from “someone’s going to be mad at me” to “it’s all going to go to shit,” and the behavior each one drives you toward.▪️ The Inner Critic and Shame Cycle - How your inner critic, a young shame part, and your escaping parts keep each other going, and why you can’t break the cycle by silencing just one of them.▪️ Shame as a Survival Response - Why slumping, looking away, and going quiet made you less of a target as a kid, and why your body still does it when you’re not in danger.▪️ Guilt Over Rest and Pleasure - Why toxic guilt doesn’t need anyone else in the room, and how it makes resting, buying something nice, or having a bad day feel like something you’re getting away with.▪️ Polyvagal Tools for Toxic Guilt - How naming the state instead of the story, doing the physical opposite of collapse, and reaching out for co-regulation start to tell your body something new.🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 190 | The Purpose of Our Pain: IFS Therapy to Heal Complex Trauma w/ Tammy Sollenberger▪️ Ep 241 | Inside an Emotional Flashback: Recognizing One, Surviving One & What's Underneath▪️ Ep 167 | Gaslighting, Imposter Syndrome & Emotional Attunement w/ Amelia Kelley-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- Oct 10, 202635 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #225 – Attachment Blindness
⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- Oct 7, 202652 min
251 - Attachment Blindness: Why You Miss Real Betrayal & See Harm That Isn't There
Your childhood decided who people are before they ever opened their mouths. Sometimes that means missing the person who is hurting you. Sometimes it means creating the harm you were braced for.There are two different ways your trauma keeps you from seeing a relationship for what it actually is. Betrayal blindness is not seeing the ways people are treating you like shit. Attachment blindness is not being able to see the people you're in relationships with accurately in the first place. Today we're diving into both.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Betrayal Blindness — Why your mind, body and nervous system will keep you from seeing that someone you depend on is hurting you, and what they are protecting you from.▪️ What Actually Counts as a Parent Betraying You — Why it isn't just the obvious abuse, and the one thing that makes all of it betrayal no matter what it looked like.▪️ Seeing the Incident But Not the Pattern — The more common version for adult children, where you clock every individual hurt but never let them add up to a conclusion about the relationship.▪️ The Shame That Holds the Blindness in Place — Why being treated badly doesn't register as wrong when part of you believes you deserve it, and what has to come first.▪️ Attachment Blindness — How the attachment system you built to survive your family becomes the lens you see every relationship through, and why it looks for what it expects instead of what is actually there.▪️ 3 Ways You See Harm That Isn't There — How transference, black and white thinking and emotional reasoning each turn a feeling into a conclusion about somebody.▪️ The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy — How the way you see someone shapes how you treat them, how that shapes the way they respond, and why you take their response as proof you were right all along.-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- Oct 3, 202633 min
SHITSHOW SATURDAY #224 – When You Just Want a Parent
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. Get in on this sh*t 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin-- ⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🥩 Check out Omaha Steaks and use my code BEEF for a $35 off: https://www.omahasteaks.com🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → @adultchildpodYouTube → @adultchildpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- Oct 1, 20261h 15m
250 - What a Real Amends From a Parent Requires: Naming the Impact & What Happens If You Never Get It w/ Dr. Ken Adams & Leilani Sinclair
✨SAFE WITHIN: A 7-week live somatic journey to get out of your head and into your body. Starts Wed. Oct 7th. 👉 adultchildpodcast.com/safewithin--An apology is the parent telling you they feel bad. An amends is the parent telling you exactly what they did and what it cost you.Dr. Ken Adams and Leilani Sinclair are certified sex addiction therapists and the co-authors of the upcoming book Unburdening Adult Children of Sex Addicts, out January 7th. Ken is also the author of Silently Seduced, the book that put covert incest and parent-child enmeshment on the map.Their new workbook walks a family healing from sex addiction through the process of both parents taking accountability for the impact they had on their child. This is a conversation about what a parent would actually have to do to unburden you, and why an apology is not the same thing as an amends.✨ What this episode explores▪️ Apology vs. Amends — Why saying sorry and taking accountability are two different acts, and what the second one requires that the first one doesn't.▪️ Impact Statements — Why putting the specifics of how you were affected on paper does something for you that talking about it doesn't, even if nobody ever hears▪️ When Accountability Never Comes — Why the healing looks different when the accountability isn't coming, and what it means to give yourself the thing your parent won't.▪️ The Emotional Caretaker of the Betrayed Parent — What it does to a kid to be recruited as the confidant for the parent who was hurt, and why that role is the hardest one to put down.▪️ Why Siblings Don't Come Out of It the Same — How the roles you each played and what you each knew leave you with different versions of the same childhood.▪️ Finding Out in Adulthood — What it does to somebody when the truth about a parent surfaces at forty, and why that's its own trauma rather than a delayed version of everyone else's.A Light in the Dark Workshop for Adult Children of Sexually Addicted Parents (ACSAs)Contact Leilani - leilani@leilanisinclair.com-----------------------🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:▪️ Ep 163 | Breaking The Shame: Adult Children of Sex Addicts w/ Dr. Kenneth Adams▪️Ep 243 | The Caregiving Trap: When the Parent You're Estranged From Becomes Your Responsibility w/ Katherine St. Claire-----------------------⚓JOIN THE SHITSHOW — The Adult Child Healing Community6 weekly Zoom support groups · Discussion boards · Peer connection👉 theshitshow.mn.co🗞️ SIGN UP FOR SHITSHOW NATIONGet the newsletter for community updates, healing insights & early access to workshops.➡️ Join here💁♀️ SUPPORT THE POD☕ Buy Me a Coffee – help Andrea (and her cats) eat🛍️ Shop Shitshow Merch💬 CONNECT WITH ANDREAInstagram → @adultchildpodTikTok → <a href="http://www.tiktok.com/@adultchildpod" rel="nofo
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Adult Child dives deep into the lasting effects of growing up in dysfunctional families—unpacking complex and relational trauma, codependency, toxic shame, and addiction patterns with raw vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity. Hosted by Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, each episode shares unfiltered insights, expert conversations, and practical tools to heal your nervous system and break free from the cycles that hold you back. Whether you’re an adult child of alcoholics or from a dysfunctional family, navigating toxic relationships, or healing your inner child, this is your no-BS space for healing.
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