You're Not Crazy, You Just Grew Up With a Toxic Parent: My New Podcast Is Here

I've been sitting on this for a while, and I'm so excited to finally say it out loud: I started a podcast.

It's called You're Not Crazy: A Podcast for the Cycle Breakers With Toxic Parents, and it's officially live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music. If you're no stranger to waking away from chaotic conversations with your toxic mom or emotionally immature parent thinking "Am I the problem?", this show is for you.

Why I Created You're Not Crazy

If you've followed me for a while, you already know I have a lot to say. And there's no better place to say it than a podcast built for the millions of us who grew up in dysfunctional families, constantly second-guessing our own memories and experiences.

Every week I'll get into what it actually looks like to grow up with a parent who has borderline or narcissistic personality disorder, or inside a family that ran on guilt, control, and chaos. These are unfiltered, honest conversations with a therapist who also grew up in a dysfunctional family with a narcissist parent.

What You Can Expect From Episode One

The first episode is called "I Don't Believe Parents Who Are Completely Blindsided When Their Child Goes No-Contact." If you've ever gone low or no contact with a parent and heard someone insist "they were completely blindsided," you already know that narrative. I unpack why I don't buy it. Inspired by Ellen Barry's recent New York Times piece on family estrangement, I get into the real reasons adult children cut ties, and why it's almost never as sudden as the parent claims.

Most adult children of narcissistic or emotionally volatile parents bend over backwards trying to make the relationship work. They go to therapy, they try to communicate their needs, they set boundaries, and they give chance after chance after chance.

And what do they get back? Guilt trips, denial, rage, silence, and the kind of emotional manipulation that makes them question their own reality. Eventually some of them land in the same place: this isn't fixable and staying here is breaking me. That's when they make the brutally hard decision to walk away.

Calling Out the Victim Narrative (and Why It Makes People Mad)

When emotionally immature parents get called out, especially in public, people get uncomfortable fast. And every time I speak honestly about the abusive behaviors tied to borderline and narcissistic personality disorders in parents, I get accused of being "stigmatizing" or "a bad therapist." So let me say it plainly. This podcast is not about hating parents with BPD or NPD. It's about validating the adult children who were shaped by them. Pretending the abuse didn't happen doesn't make it disappear. Talking honestly about dysfunctional family dynamics is what helps people heal, and that is the entire point of this show.

For the Cycle Breakers Who Are Done Playing Along

This show is for the adult child setting boundaries with a toxic parent for the very first time, and for the one who still quietly wonders if they "overreacted." It's for the person sitting in therapy trying to unlearn everything their narcissistic mom drilled into them, and for the cycle breaker who's finally ready to say "this ends with me." I see you, because I am you. And I promise, you're not crazy.

Subscribe and Listen Now

The trailer and first two episodes are already live, and new episodes drop every Tuesday. If the show resonates, leaving a five-star review genuinely helps it reach other cycle breakers who need to hear they're not the problem. You can start listening right now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Let's talk about the stuff nobody else wants to say out loud. Because the second you start telling the truth, the story your family handed you starts to lose its grip.

Listen to the You're Not Crazy podcast