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Sherapy Sessions: Cutting Toxic Family Ties

Sherapy Sessions: Cutting Toxic Family Ties

By: Dr. Sherrie Campbell
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Toxic family is real. Toxic parents are real. Smear campaigns are real. Toxic in-laws are real. You are not alone. On this podcast, you have a voice. On this podcast, Dr. Sherrie Campbell will help you learn more about your family dynamics, unconscious patterns that drive toxic human behavior, and ways to deal with your trauma. And most importantly, you will embark on a journey that will help you know yourself and love yourself more. Dr. Sherrie is a nationally recognized expert clinical psychologist with over 25 years of clinical training and experience. She was featured in major media networks such as CNN, Time, USA Today, and The Huffington Post. She is the best-selling author of But It’s Your Family…Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath and Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself. She is a mom who bravely shared her story to help more people break free of toxic family relationships and thrive in the aftermath. Subscribe now to get your monthly "Sherapy Sessions" (Sherrie Therapy Sessions) straight from your phone.Copyright 2021 Dr. Sherrie Campbell Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Embodying Healing: The Mind-Body-Spirit Path Beyond Toxic Family Ties (Bonus Episode 29)
    Aug 6 2025

    Are you beginning to realize that your healing started the moment the noise stopped? The moment you cut ties with your family?

    If your healing journey has felt spiritual, psychological, and deeply physical all at once, it's because it should be.

    Spiritual teacher and empath mentor Jennifer Pilates, shares the embodied path of healing after cutting ties with a toxic family. Because healing after family trauma isn’t just a psychological process; it’s a full-body, soul-deep return to yourself.

    🌿Learning to “be in your body”

    🌿Healing and the mind/body connection

    🌿Emotional repair cannot occur, and true health cannot develop into boundaries have been set or ties have been cut

    🌿Manifesting a new life

    🌿Spiritual healing

    🌿Know who you are is a superpower

    🌿You are far more powerful than toxicity

    🌿Healing yourself gives those in your toxic family the opportunity to heal, whether they take that opportunity is not up to us


    Jennifer Pilates - Spiritual Thought Leader, has been transforming clients' body, mind, and spirits worldwide for over 25 years as an Internationally Renowned Reiki Healing Master + Intuitive-Medium, Holistic Health & Wellness Expert Author, and Host of the Top-Rated Podcast Host Empowered Within.

    Jennifer is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, detail-loving, stubborn-as-heck achiever, unshakeable optimistic, philanthropic, self-care activist, fur-baby momma, and ocean-loving intuitive-empath. From her readings to healing, from her training to writing, to her top-rated Podcast: Empowered Within, Jennifer has been leaving her inspirational, empowering, and transformational touch on clients and celebrities worldwide for well over two decades.


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    MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

    📌 [Podcast] Empowered Within with Jennifer Pilates - https://jenniferpilates.com/podcast-1

    📌 [Podcast Episode] Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members with Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://bit.ly/3GERPYi

    📌 [Podcast Episode] How to Heal: Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents with Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://bit.ly/44P6cRZ

    📌 [Program] Reiki Distant Healing - https://jenniferpilates.com/reiki-healing-events

    📌 Jennifer Pilates Wellness Studio - https://jenniferpilates.com/wellness-studio


    CONNECT WITH JENNIFER:

    📌 Website: https://jenniferpilates.com/

    📌 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhV033DQEauG2X9AKs7mLA

    📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferpilates/

    📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferPilates/#

    📌 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferpilates/


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    MY LATEST BOOK!!!

    Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

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    MY TEDx TALK:

    📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc


    BOOKS BY DR. SHERRIE:

    ⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA

    ⚉ But

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    53 mins
  • Angie ADHD with Angie Hurlburt (Bonus Episode 28)
    Jul 23 2025

    Have you ever questioned whether your neurodivergence played a role in the trauma you endured—and perhaps even helped you escape it?

    Was it the trauma that caused the ADHD, or did the ADHD cause the trauma?

    In this powerful conversation, let's explore how living with undiagnosed ADHD made Angie, an ADHD coach and fellow survivor of a toxic family system, the perfect target for scapegoating—misunderstood, mislabeled, and chronically blamed in a family that punished difference instead of embracing it.

    🌿 Children with ADHD are far more likely to be the family scapegoat

    🌿 Similarities between the highly sensitive person and adhd

    🌿The adhd child is often the truth teller, blurting truths out and facing harsh consequences

    🌿 The superpower of hyper focus

    🌿 The emotional fallout of being an adhd child in a toxic family

    🌿 ADHD a result of C-PTSD


    Angie Hurlburt is a Certified Advanced ADHD Life Coach, proud ADHDer, and mom of two ADHDers. Diagnosed later in life, Angie draws on her 42 years of lived experience navigating the challenges of a neurodivergent brain and surviving Family Scapegoating Abuse.

    Now, she’s turning her passion for truth-telling and resilience into actionable change through coaching and The ADHD Scapegoat Podcast, which she co-hosts with her husband. Together, they tackle ADHD struggles, childhood trauma, and the realities of being an ADHD Scapegoat by having honest conversations about our lived experiences in hopes of creating a brighter future.


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    MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

    📌 The ADHD Scapegoat Podcast (Spotify) - https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZMamXDJq6ClIsvWzRVMOo

    📌 The ADHD Scapegoat Podcast (Apple) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adhd-scapegoat-podcast/id1776395318


    CONNECT WITH ANGIE:

    📌 Website: https://adhdwithangie.com/

    📌 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ADHDwithAngie

    📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adhd_with_angie/

    📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adhdwithangie


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    MY LATEST BOOK!!!

    Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

    *****


    MY TEDx TALK:

    📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc


    BOOKS BY DR. SHERRIE:

    ⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA

    ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn

    ⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R

    ⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u

    ⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5


    CONNECT WITH DR. SHERRIE:

    ⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/

    ⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD


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    59 mins
  • Toxic Mothers: Breaking Free, Setting Boundaries, and Healing the Daughter Wound (Bonus Episode 27)
    Jul 9 2025

    Has your relationship with your mother brought more pain than comfort?

    The mother wound is real, painful, and often invisible to outsiders—but healing is possible.

    Join me and Stephi as we unpack the deeply misunderstood journey of women who recognize the “mother wound”—emotional enmeshment, manipulation, and conditional love—and make the toughest choice: breaking free.

    🌿 Key behaviors that signal a toxic maternal relationship, and how you can l identify them in your own experience

    🌿 The various ways toxic maternal behaviors typically impact emotional and mental well-being

    🌿 Recommended boundaries for protecting yourself when dealing with a toxic mother

    🌿 How can you tell if you are taking on undue responsibility for your mother’s emotions or actions?

    🌿 Support systems or resources most effective for those navigating toxic maternal relationships

    🌿 Common patterns in interactions with toxic mothers that should be addressed for healthier dynamics

    🌿 Actionable steps for prioritizing healing and personal growth in the context of a toxic relationship with your mother

    🌿Why no contact is sometimes the only option you are left with

    Stephi Wagner is a therapist and mother wound specialist. She is the courageous voice behind the popular Instagram account @motherwoundproject.

    After earning both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Go Blue!), Stephi founded the Mother Wound Project, which she now’s serves as the director. In addition, Stephi works privately with clients impacted by the mother wound and is the author of Reclaim.

    Stephi is sought internationally for her expertise in the mother wound, as well as in attachment trauma, developmental trauma, complex trauma, parental trauma, parenting after trauma, parent-child estrangement, and reconciliation.

    Stephi is a survivor of the mother wound and the father wound. She splits her parent-free-and-happy life between Ann Arbor and Detroit in her favorite state of Michigan where she lives with her husband of 17 years, their son, and the family’s resident felines. When she’s not thinking or talking about the mother wound, you’ll find Stephi knitting, hiking, crocheting, reading, or hand quilting.


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    Use my link 👉 https://hiyahealth.pxf.io/c/5964558/1730519/20098 to get 50% off of your first order with HIYA and free delivery!

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    MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

    📌 The Mother Wound Project - http://www.motherwoundproject.com/

    📌 [Journal] Reclaim: A 60-Day Journal for Healing the Mother Wound - https://www.motherwoundproject.com/product-page/reclaim-a-60-day-journal-for-healing-the-mother-wound


    CONNECT WITH STEPHI:

    📌 Website: http://motherwoundproject.com/

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    1 hr
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