CC: How to be a healthy adult even if you had an unhealthy childhood with Ally Golden

Over It And On With It

Christine Hassler

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This is a MUST LISTEN!! So real, raw and FULL of wisdom. Christine speaks with Ali Golden, the author of “A Good Soldier.” When Ally Golden heads off to college, she breathes a sigh of relief; she is ready to discover herself, independent of her mother. However, this newfound freedom and several failed attempts at intimacy soon leave Golden feeling adrift. But even as she withdraws from the world, Golden feels an all-powerful emotional connection to the woman who raised her. Moving into adulthood, Golden tries to envision a future in which she can begin her own family—as the mental decline of her mother reaches its lowest point. Will Golden be able to heal her relationship with her mother before it’s too late? Golden’s raw honesty and stunning emotional insights will comfort anyone who has been on the chaotic and unpredictable journey with a mentally ill friend or family member. Check out A Good Soldier on Amazon in trade paperback or ebook

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0:00.0	Hi everybody so I have a very special edition of Coaches Corner this week I'm
0:07.6	actually going to be talking to a friend of mine from college her name is
0:10.7	Ali Golden and one of the main reasons I wanted to have her on is because she just wrote a book called A Good Soldier and I'll let her tell you what it's about but just to tease a little bit it's about growing up with difficult parents, and that may be an understatement.
0:27.0	And I know this is going to resonate with so many of you, because one of the big topics we talk about on the show is overcoming
0:35.8	challenges we've had with our parents.
0:38.1	You know, they have such a significant influence on our life and how we deal with that as adults and how we reparent ourselves and
0:47.0	how we really forgive our parents and move on no matter what they did, remembering that they're
0:51.6	just human.
0:53.0	So I know that she's going to shed a lot of light
0:55.9	onto the situation for us, and I'm really, really excited
0:59.4	and grateful that she's here.
1:00.5	So thank you, Ali, for joining us on over and on with it. Oh, thanks for
1:05.2	having me, Christine. I love the mission of this program and it's absolutely in line
1:10.1	with what I tried to do with the book. So I really appreciate you taking the time
1:14.6	to talk to me this afternoon.
1:17.8	Yeah, so tell us what the book is about.
1:29.0	So a good soldier is about my journey growing up with a mentally ill mother specifically. It chronicles my life growing up in the Washington DC suburbs, follows me to our alma mater,
1:36.8	Northwestern University in the 90s, and then continues on through my life in New York and Chicago,
1:44.4	concluding with the birth of my first child.
1:46.4	And through this time, I had a very difficult journey
1:48.9	with my mom who suffered from severe depression and a disorder called borderline personality disorder,
1:55.2	which some of you out there might be familiar with.
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