159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

1. Cutting off contact with family is on a dramatic rise – how to know if there’s hope of repair, or if self-preservation requires distance. 2. How to have present, productive conversations with our parents about the past. 3. Why we grieve the loss of a family member even if we know it’s healthiest to cut them out. 4. Attachment styles, emotional honesty, and the difference between forgiveness and repair. 5. What to do and say – and what NOT to say – when attempting to reconnect with an estranged loved one. About Dr. Atlas: Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City. Her new book Emotional Inheritance was published in January 2022 and is being translated into 17 languages. She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. IG: @galit_atlas

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0:00.0	And I continue to believe the best people are free.
0:12.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:15.0	Thanks for coming back.
0:16.0	We came back to really, really excited about this day because we have one of our favorites,
0:23.2	Dr. Galete Atlas, back with us today.
0:26.2	You will remember Dr. Galete Atlas as the author of the International Best Seller Emotional
0:32.3	Inheritance, a therapist, her patients, and the legacy of trauma, which is freaking amazing
0:38.1	and has been translated into 23 languages.
0:41.0	She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City.
0:46.7	And is on the Faculty of NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
0:52.8	If you have not already, please go back and listen to episode 97 with Galete about how
0:57.6	family secrets shape us, which we have heard back from so many people that it changed
1:04.2	the way they think about their families and their lives.
1:06.2	So thank you for coming back.
1:09.4	Welcome.
1:10.4	Thank you so much for having me.
1:12.2	I'm really excited to be today.
1:14.3	Good.
1:15.3	Because we've got a really deeply important subject to discuss today, which we thought you
1:19.9	were the only person that we could really trust to talk us through to this one.
1:29.2	We actually decided to do this episode in response to what so many people have called us to
1:36.6	talk about.
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