Episodes We Love: In The Shadow Of Damaged Parents

Dear Sugars

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Dear, Advice, Sugar, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Steve Almond, Wbur, Boston

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A damaged parent can cast a dark shadow over our lives, especially when we inherit some of that damage. Steve’s father, the psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Almond, joins the Sugars to answer letters and offer a way out. This episode was originally released on September 2nd, 2017.

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0:00.0	Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.
0:14.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:22.0	I'm Steve Olman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
0:42.0	I check my bedbub every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve.
0:58.0	Hello Cheryl.
1:00.0	Actually, weirdly upbeat greeting.
1:03.0	I'm always very happy to see you, but the subject today, not so upbeat.
1:08.0	Not so happy.
1:09.0	It's a heavy one.
1:10.0	We're going to talk today about, we've called this episode in the shadow of a damaged parent.
1:16.0	And it is really, we get such a multitude of letters that really, when you boil it down,
1:22.0	has to do with how do you live in the shadow of a parent who was in one way or another damaged.
1:29.0	And to what extent do we, as kids, we're all kids, of some set of parents, inherit some of that damage.
1:36.0	Is it inflicted upon us consciously and unconsciously and can we and how do we find our way out of that shadow?
1:44.0	And there are so many nuances to that shadow.
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