Mother's Day is this weekend, and I know that is hard for many of you. In this episode, I discuss who should be "celebrated" on Mother's Day and answer several of your questions about how to grieve and estrangement.
Here are those resources I mentioned in the episode:
Mother-Daughter Relationship worksheets, videos, scripts, and articles
The Adult D ... Show More
Oct 7
How to Parent Differently Without Overcorrecting with Dr. Juli Fraga
Whitney Goodman interviews psychologist Dr. Julie Fraga about her book "Parents Have Feelings Too." They discuss how parents can process their own emotions, break cycles of guilt and perfectionism, use the Change Triangle to understand their feelings, and teach emotional intellig ... Show More
36m 18s
Oct 2
Q&A: Becoming Like Your Parent
Whitney explores patterns around adult children who mimic their parents' harmful behaviors, the complexities of maintaining boundaries when a parent struggles with addiction, and how illness can be weaponized in estranged families. In the Q&A, she answers a caller's question abou ... Show More
22m 47s
Sep 30
Analyzing Prime Video's The Girlfriend | Mother-Son Enmeshment and Emotional Incest
Whitney analyzes the Amazon Prime show "The Girlfriend" to explore mother-son enmeshment and emotional incest. She analyzes how the show illustrates blurred boundaries, guilt and manipulation, marital dysfunction, and the devastating long-term impacts on sons' ability to form hea ... Show More
37m 9s
May 2025
Are You A "Yes Mom" Or A "No Mom"? : Episode 517
Some days we’re the “Sure, why not?” mom, and other days we’re the “Because I said so” mom - and often we lean more into one side than the other. Meagan and Sarah unpack what the Yes Mom / No Mom binary really means, the why behind our wiring, how it affects our kids, and how it’ ... Show More
49m 18s
May 2025
354. Mother. Immigrant. Matriarch: An Emotional Mother’s Day Special with Shama Rehmetullah
This week on CEO School, we’re celebrating Mother’s Day with one of the most heartfelt, vulnerable, and inspiring episodes yet. Host Suneera Madhani is joined by the most important guest she’s ever had on the show—her mom, Shama Rehmetullah. In this candid conversation, Suneera a ... Show More
35m 31s
May 2023
Episode 171 - Mother's Day: The Bitter & The Sweet
Just hours before Mother's Day, host Mitch Albom and his wife attended the 2023 ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation Gala, in honor of Chad Carr and Michael Mosier, two children who lost their lives far too soon from the same pediatric brain cancer that took the life of the Albom's b ... Show More
29m 4s
May 2024
Dear Daughter: A guest episode
New mum Janine Harouni is anxious and lonely, so why do the other mums online look so happy? This is a guest episode from Dear Daughter.Namulanta is building a “handbook to life”, sharing your parenting advice, personal stories, with letters to your daughters. If you are a mum or ... Show More
28m 17s
May 2024
Healing the Mother-Daughter Relationship - With My Mom | EP 35
In this episode of Healing & Human Potential, where we're diving deep into the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship. Everyone’s relationship is going to look different, and I realize this could be a sensitive topic for some + that they aren’t always easy, but often they ... Show More
1h 9m