22 - Emotional Sobriety & Resiliency w/ Catherine Gildiner

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In today's episode, Andrea dives deep into emotional recovery with New York Times bestselling Author & retired clinical psychologist. Over the course of her 25 year old career, Cathy helped countless adult children of dysfunctional families heal their unresolved pain. In her most recent book, "Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery ", Cathy shares about the patients that left the biggest impression on her - each of which having endured horrendous childhoods. The book is a a beautiful illustrations of the therapeutic process of healing from the pasts from the perspective of both patient and therapist - and does so in an extremely compelling way.
Catherine's Official Website
Catherine's Books

Follow Andrea on social -
www.instagram.com/adultchildpod
www.tiktok.com/@adultchildpod

Question & Comments - Hit a Girl Up
Email me @ [email protected]
Or leave a voicemail @ 415-562-8050

Support the show Our Sponsors: * Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code ADULTCHILD for a great deal: www.uncommongoods.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Healing the past to stop living in the past. My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
0:14.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:15.0	What you holding on to?
0:19.0	What you holding on to?
0:20.0	But just let it all go.
0:22.0	What's making you slow now?
0:25.0	Let it all go.
0:27.0	Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. And today we are diving deep into
0:36.8	emotional recovery with Kathy Gildener. Now Kathy is a New York Times best-selling author and a retired clinical
0:45.9	psychologist who spent years doing the Lord's work helping adult children heal
0:52.1	from the past.
0:53.4	So her most recent book was published in 2019 and it is called Good Morning Monster.
0:58.3	A therapist shares five heroic stories of emotional recovery.
1:02.3	And this book is about the five patients that had the biggest impact
1:08.4	on Kathy throughout her 25-year career as a therapist. Five individuals who managed to survive horrendous
1:16.4	childhoods like dysfunctional ink cut in it.
1:19.4	These were horrendous childhoods and how their unresolved childhood pain showed up in their lives as adults.
1:27.0	And in my opinion, this book is a beautiful example of why it's so important for an adult child to seek therapy to work through this
1:34.8	shit and the importance of digging up the past shining a light on the pain of
1:39.8	the past and most importantly that healing is possible and this book illustrates what
1:45.5	healing looks like not in theory but an actual practice. Now each patient on the
1:51.5	surface seems vastly different, but as the layers of the onion
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andrea, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Andrea and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.