CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT

By Calling Home

Whitney Goodman is a licensed marriage and family therapist and author on a mission to help adult family members have better relationships. Each week, Whitney has conversations with influential guests... more

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The podcast currently has 148 episodes available.

CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT episodes:

August 14, 2025 Q&A: When Your Family Wants You as Their Human Shield
In this Q&A episode, Whitney addresses a caller whose siblings want them to attend their parents' 50th anniversary trip not out of love, but to serve as a buffer against their abusive parents' dysfunction - and how to handle the pressure when "no" isn't being accepted as an answer. She also discusses sibling dynamics from the Apple TV show "Smoke" and shares her experience with red light meditation for stress reduction.
Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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17min
August 12, 2025 Can Emotionally Mature Parents Raise Immature Kids?
In this solo episode, Whitney responds to the question: can emotionally mature parents still raise emotionally immature adult children? She breaks down the research on emotional transmission from parent to child, examining the roles of modeling, contingency responses, and coaching. Whitney discusses how temperament, bidirectional influence, and developmental timing can complicate outcomes, while providing evidence-based strategies for fostering emotional maturity in yourself and your own (or prospective) children.
Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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30min
August 07, 2025 Q&A: All or Nothing Relationships with Emotionally Immature Parents
In this Q&A episode, Whitney addresses a caller dealing with a mother who accuses her of being the toxic one while engaging in silent treatment and triangulation tactics. She discusses parents who weaponize big parenting gestures like Disney trips and birthday parties to deflect from daily emotional neglect. She also analyzes emotionally immature parenting through the lens of the TV series Friday Night Lights, examining how involved parents can still cause harm when their support is conditional on performance.
Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.
02:37 Friday Night Lights and Conditional Love
08:11 Disney Trips vs. Daily Emotional Presence
13:14 When Your Parent Accuses You of Being Toxic
21:24 The All-or-Nothing Parent Dilemma

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26min
August 05, 2025 Sibling Estrangement in Families with an Emotionally Immature Parent
In this solo episode, Whitney explores why siblings from the same dysfunctional family often have completely different experiences and reactions to their emotionally immature parents. She breaks down the common dysfunctional family roles - golden child, scapegoat, lost child, parentified child, and enabler - and explains how these roles create lasting divisions between siblings in adulthood. Whitney then gives guidance on how siblings can come to terms with these different reactions to their different experiences.
Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.
00:00 Why Siblings Experience the Same Parent Differently
03:19 The Five Dysfunctional Family Roles
07:29 How Childhood Roles Divide Adult Siblings
13:21 Accepting Different Healing Paths

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22min
July 31, 2025 Q&A: AI Therapists, Reality TV, and Sibling Estrangement
In this Q&A episode, Whitney discusses why AI can't replace real therapy and the privacy concerns with using ChatGPT for mental health support. Whitney also addresses a caller dealing with sibling estrangement - feeling alone and resentful when their brother cut off their emotionally immature mother while they chose to stay and work on the relationship.
Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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26min
July 29, 2025 The Emotionally Immature Parent Assessment
In this solo episode, Whitney introduces the upcoming August topic for the Family Cyclebreakers Club: adult children of emotionally immature parents. She walks listeners through an 18-question assessment to help identify if they have an emotionally immature parent, explains the key traits of emotional immaturity based on Dr. Lindsay Gibson's work, and discusses the common patterns adult children develop to survive these family systems.Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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28min
July 24, 2025 Q&A: Co-parenting with a Narcissist
In this Q&A episode, Whitney addresses a caller's concerns about co-parenting with her ex-husband while he is living with his mother with whom he has an enmeshed relationship with and who has actively tried to sabotage their marriage in the past.
Have a question for Whitney? Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected]
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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29min
July 22, 2025 The Betrayal of the Enabling Parent
In this solo episode, Whitney explores one of the most painful realizations in family healing: when the "safer" parent was also complicit in your harm. She breaks down the complex dynamics between enablers and abusers in narcissistic family systems, explains why enablers are both victims and perpetrators, and provides crucial questions to assess whether reconciliation is possible.
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Have a question for Whitney? Call in and leave a voicemail for the show at (866) 225-5466⁠⁠
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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29min
July 17, 2025 Q&A: My Mom Doesn't Want a Relationship
In this Q&A episode, Whitney introduces a new TV pop culture segment, analyzing dysfunctional family dynamics in reality shows like Real Housewives of Miami and Love Island. She explores cultural expectations around who should maintain parent-child relationships and discusses the shift in generational attitudes toward supporting adult children's choices. Plus, Whitney addresses a caller question about a mother who explicitly states her unwillingness to be close to her daughter.
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Have a question for Whitney? Call in and leave a voicemail for the show at (866) 225-5466⁠⁠
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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29min
July 15, 2025 The Family You Create with Sahil Bloom
Whitney sits down with entrepreneur and author Sahil Bloom to discuss his book "The Five Types of Wealth" and the powerful story of his parents choosing love over family approval. They explore how family estrangement shaped Sahil's understanding of what "family" really means, the toxic masculinity plaguing young men today, and why being a present father is the most fulfilling work he's ever done.
Whitney Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of Calling Home, a membership community that helps people navigate complex family dynamics and break harmful cycles.
Have a question for Whitney? Call in and leave a voicemail for the show at (866) 225-5466⁠⁠
Join the Family Cyclebreakers Club⁠⁠
Follow Whitney on Instagram | sitwithwhit
Follow Whitney on YouTube | @whitneygoodmanlmft
⁠⁠Order Whitney’s book, Toxic Positivity⁠⁠
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice.

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42min

FAQs about CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT:

How many episodes does CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT have?

The podcast currently has 148 episodes available.

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