Compassion Doesn't Depend on Circumstance

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Nancy blames her bad childhood for the lack of connection and compassion she feels for her siblings. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Nancy, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Dr. Laura, hi. Thank you for taking my call. I hope you'll bear with me. I'm a tad bit nervous.
0:20.4	Sure. I understand. I understand. I bear with me. I'm a tad bit nervous and very emotional.
0:23.5	I am the product of a dysfunctional family and abusive childhood.
0:29.9	My stats, I'm 63 years old.
0:33.4	I'm the youngest of five children.
0:36.8	I'm estranged for most of my family.
0:40.6	My keto self-preservation, if you will, is I've taken the relationship primarily with my parents,
0:48.5	and I've put it in a shoebox, and I put that shoebox on the top shelf of my closet,
0:53.9	and I let it collect dust. When something happens in life, in that shoebox on the top shelf of my closet, and I let it collect dust.
0:55.9	When something happens in life and that shoe box gets open, the dust makes me sneeze.
1:02.1	I received a call last night from one of my children telling me that one of my sisters was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
1:15.6	I understand that it's stage one and there's a good prognosis,
1:21.6	but it's clearly difficult information to process.
1:31.2	My parents I have no use for.
1:34.2	Again, they were abusive.
1:35.6	Sorry, let's just stay with your sister,
1:37.5	with her stage one pancreatic cancer.
1:40.3	What is there to process?
1:42.3	What do you have to process?
1:45.7	I get what I there to process? What do you have to process? I get, what I have to process is the hurt that I'm no longer,
1:53.8	that she doesn't talk to me anymore.
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