What Helping Heal Estranged Families Taught Me About How We Might Bridge Our Political Divide
My brother and I will never agree on anything political. I won’t accept that Hillary is evil, no matter how many videos he sends me, and...
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How a Child’s Mental Illness Can Have Tragic Consequences for Parents
Sometimes the most heroic efforts from parents aren’t enough... Conversations, in a family, become linguistic archaeology. They build the...
The Reluctant Therapist: Estrangement Between Children and Parents
Estrangement between a parent and an adult child is not uncommon, but the pain, shame, guilt, and embarrassment surrounding a rift in a...
Why People Break Up With Their Parents...
Families used to split up over inheritance and duty – and today the reasons also include boundaries, personal growth and happiness....
Psychologist Joshua Coleman: How to contend with estranged family members "Rules of Estrangement"
Estrangement and stigma go hand in hand. Even if we accept the contemporary parenting precept that every family is a dysfunctional...
What Boomers Can Learn From Millennials About Changing The World...and their relationships
March 2, 2021: By Joshua Coleman, Psychologist and Author, "Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the...
"HOW TO HEAL A BROKEN BOND" EPISODE 127...TALKING TO TEENS
What can Dr. Joshua Coleman teach us about healing our relationships with our teens? In our interview, he talks about how part of the...
Family rifts seem on the rise. Here's why they happen and how to cope...
By Jen Rose Smith, CNN Wed February 24, 2021 (CNN) Each week, Sheri McGregor gets hundreds of emails from parents shut out of their...
"RULES OF ESTRANGEMENT: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict"
Penguin/Random House announces this greatly anticipated book will be published in March, and is available for pre-order. What are they...
Another Epidemic: Family Gaps Widen over Sex, Tech, Trump & COVID
Published in CHRISTIAN HEADLINES... Earlier this month, in a piece for The Atlantic, Joshua Coleman described an epidemic that’s not...
Does Social Media Worsen Parental Estrangement?
One of the benefits of technology has been an increase in the means available for people to stay in touch. While families once had to...
How to talk to that family member over the holidays...
Dec 23, 2020 Remember Cousin Eddie — Randy Quaid’s lovable buffoon in National Lampoon’s Vacation series? If you’ve seen the original...
OPINION: Your Will is about more than money and cutting your child out could backfire...
December 22, 2020 I work with some of the most heartbroken people in the world: parents whose adult children want nothing to do with...
Connecting with Your Alienated Adult Children: Dr. Petra Deeter and Dr. Joshua Coleman
In this conversation, Dr. Petra Deeter talks with Josh about how to reconnect with alienated adult children.
“Don’t Get into the Rightness or Wrongness of It…Just Seek to Understand” – with Josh Coleman
"I am pleased to bring you the thinking of today’s guest, Dr. Joshua Coleman. Josh is a psychologist in private practice in the San...
All Your FAQs About Staying Safe (And Sane) This Thanksgiving
The Brian Lehrer Show: From safety concerns about travel to staving off fights about politics once you arrive, there's nothing simple...
We Aren't Family: The Adults 'Divorcing' Their Parents
More adult children are “breaking up” with their folks, in what’s being described as an epidemic of intergenerational dysfunction. And...
How to Repair a Family Rift...
Family estrangements are fundamental to the human story, starting the day that God tossed Adam and Eve from the garden. Likewise, in...
All the Things We Have to Mourn Now...
As of this writing, the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 50,000 people in the United States and more than 200,000 people...
