45 episodes

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 and real people to help listeners find new ways of looking at old family problems.
Calling Home is available every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.

CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT tentwentytwo

    • Society & Culture

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 and real people to help listeners find new ways of looking at old family problems.
Calling Home is available every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.

    Listener Voicemails - Mother’s Day Edition

    Listener Voicemails - Mother’s Day Edition

    Mother’s Day is this Sunday and it can be very triggering for many individuals for a variety of reasons. Today on the podcast, Whitney will answer calls from listeners who struggle with this holiday. The first caller shares her struggle with maintaining no contact with her mentally ill mother due to the pain she causes, asking for advice on how to handle Mother's Day approaching. The second caller, a childless woman, expresses her resentment towards her siblings for leaving her to celebrate the holiday with their mother alone.

    Have a question for Whitney? Call Home at 866-225-5466. 

    Head over to cozyearth.com and use promo code "callinghome" for an exclusive 35% off.

    Click here to get “Toxic Positivity” on paperback. 

    Join Whitney’s Family Cycle Breakers Club for further support and discussion on family dynamics at CallingHome.co. Follow the Calling Home community on Instagram or TikTok. 

    Follow Whitney Goodman on Instagram or TikTok. 


    The Calling Home podcast is not engaged in providing therapy services, mental health advice or other medical advice or services, is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider, and does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Calling Home or Whitney Goodman. For more information on this, please see Calling Home’s Terms of Service.


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    • 20 min
    Grandchildren Are Not A Do-Over For Parents Of Adult Children

    Grandchildren Are Not A Do-Over For Parents Of Adult Children

    In this episode of The Calling Home podcast, Whitney discusses the complex dynamics of grandparent relationships. She’ll talk about why grandchildren are not a 'do-over' for parents of adult children, and that grandparents should not view their role as a second chance at parenthood. This episode is primarily focused on grandparents who have a strained relationship with their adult children and why they need to repair that relationship in order to have a healthy one with their grandchildren. Whitney will also provide a list of steps for grandparents to take in order to demonstrate change and accountability. 

    Have a question for Whitney? Call Home at 866-225-5466. 

    Head over to cozyearth.com and use promo code "callinghome" for an exclusive 35% off.

    Click here to get “Toxic Positivity” on paperback. 

    Join Whitney’s Family Cycle Breakers Club for further support and discussion on family dynamics at CallingHome.co. Follow the Calling Home community on Instagram or TikTok. 

    Follow Whitney Goodman on Instagram or TikTok. 


    The Calling Home podcast is not engaged in providing therapy services, mental health advice or other medical advice or services, is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider, and does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Calling Home or Whitney Goodman. For more information on this, please see Calling Home’s Terms of Service.

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    • 17 min
    Listener Voicemails - Chaotic Upbringings and Setting Boundaries

    Listener Voicemails - Chaotic Upbringings and Setting Boundaries

    Whitney is answering more of your questions. Today, she’ll talk to a listener that is struggling to understand her chaotic upbringing, which was marked by her parents' nasty divorce, her mother's substance abuse and mental health issues, and her father's absence. Whitney will talk about the importance of accepting and grieving these types of experiences. The second caller has questions on how to set boundaries within her culture, which is often seen as a foreign concept in her family. 

    Have a question for Whitney? Call Home at 866-225-5466. 

    Visit Mindhappy.com and use HOME15 for 15% off first monthly subscription!

    Click here to get “Toxic Positivity” on paperback. 

    Join Whitney’s Family Cycle Breakers Club for further support and discussion on family dynamics at CallingHome.co. Follow the Calling Home community on Instagram or TikTok. 

    Follow Whitney Goodman on Instagram or TikTok. 


    The Calling Home podcast is not engaged in providing therapy services, mental health advice or other medical advice or services, is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider, and does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Calling Home or Whitney Goodman. For more information on this, please see Calling Home’s Terms of Service.
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    • 17 min
    Unresolved Childhood Trauma with Andrea Ashley

    Unresolved Childhood Trauma with Andrea Ashley

    This week on Calling Home, Whitney discusses the impact of unresolved childhood trauma with the host of the Adult Child Podcast, Andrea Ashley. Andrea shares her personal journey of growing up in a loving but dysfunctional family, dealing with addiction, and discovering the concept of "adult children" of alcoholics and dysfunctional families. They’ll also touch on the difficulty of moving forward without an apology from parents and the importance of inner child work in healing.

    Learn more about the Adult Child Podcast at adultchildpodcast.com and follow Andrea on Instagram @adultchildpod. 

    Have a question for Whitney? Call Home at 866-225-5466. 

    Visit Mindhappy.com and use HOME15 for 15% off first monthly subscription!

    Click here to get “Toxic Positivity” on paperback. 

    Join Whitney’s Family Cycle Breakers Club for further support and discussion on family dynamics at CallingHome.co. Follow the Calling Home community on Instagram or TikTok. 

    Follow Whitney Goodman on Instagram or TikTok. 


    The Calling Home podcast is not engaged in providing therapy services, mental health advice or other medical advice or services, is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider, and does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Calling Home or Whitney Goodman. For more information on this, please see Calling Home’s Terms of Service.


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    • 39 min
    Listener Questions - Emotionally Distant Parents and a Good Grandma But a Not-So-Good Mom

    Listener Questions - Emotionally Distant Parents and a Good Grandma But a Not-So-Good Mom

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    In this episode of the Calling Home podcast, Whitney is answering more of your questions. The first caller is looking for advice on how to navigate a relationship with emotionally and physically distant parents. Then, our second caller wants to discuss a difficult relationship with her mother, who views her as an extension of herself. 

    Have a question for Whitney? Call Home at 866-225-5466. 

    Head over to cozyearth.com and use promo code "callinghome" for an exclusive 35% off.

    Click here to get “Toxic Positivity” on paperback. 

    Join Whitney’s Family Cycle Breakers Club for further support and discussion on family dynamics at CallingHome.co. Follow the Calling Home community on Instagram or TikTok. 

    Follow Whitney Goodman on Instagram or TikTok. 


    The Calling Home podcast is not engaged in providing therapy services, mental health advice or other medical advice or services, is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider, and does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Calling Home or Whitney Goodman. For more information on this, please see Calling Home’s Terms of Service.
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    • 18 min
    Grieving The Apology You Never Got

    Grieving The Apology You Never Got

    This week on the Calling Home Podcast, Whitney Goodman discusses how to grieve the apology you've never received from a parent. This apology may have never been received due to various reasons such as death, mental health issues, or refusal to acknowledge past wrongs. Whitney will talk about how to accept this reality and focus on healing yourself and why you may need to abandon the fantasy of an ideal parent-child relationship. 

    Head over to cozyearth.com and use promo code "callinghome" for an exclusive 35% off.

    Have a question for Whitney? Call Home at 866-225-5466. 

    Click here to get “Toxic Positivity” on paperback. 

    Join Whitney’s Family Cycle Breakers Club for further support and discussion on family dynamics at CallingHome.co. Follow the Calling Home community on Instagram or TikTok. 

    Follow Whitney Goodman on Instagram or TikTok. 


    The Calling Home podcast is not engaged in providing therapy services, mental health advice or other medical advice or services, is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare provider, and does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Calling Home or Whitney Goodman. For more information on this, please see Calling Home’s Terms of Service.
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    • 11 min

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