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🗓️ 26 September 2025
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Dr. Phil reveals the hidden habits that contaminate families and shows how to break the cycle so your legacy becomes a gift, not a burden.
Generational cycles can either build strong families or silently poison them. In this episode, Dr. Phil confronts the toxic legacies that get passed down without question, from destructive role modeling to unspoken family rules that keep everyone stuck.
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| 0:00.0 | What are your family values? |
| 0:04.0 | What's important to you as a collective personality that is your family? |
| 0:11.0 | Everybody will be different. |
| 0:13.0 | Everybody will value different things, but there will be some common values. |
| 0:18.0 | What are they? Are you a Christian family? Are you a spiritual family? Where do you all |
| 0:23.2 | stand on that? Do you honor your mother and father? What are your beliefs about how you interact with |
| 0:29.2 | the world? Are you positive? Are you well-groomed? Do you treat your house with dignity? Is the yard mode? Are the flower beds cleared? Do you treat your house with dignity? Is the yard mode or the flower beds cleared? Do you keep your cars clean? |
| 0:43.0 | When people come to your house, do you treat them with dignity and respect? |
| 0:48.0 | Do you treat each other with dignity and respect? |
| 0:52.0 | Do you respect each other's boundaries? Everybody in the family has a role. |
| 1:01.5 | Do you know what everybody's role is? Are they healthy roles? Are they unhealthy roles? And if you're the |
| 1:10.1 | leader of the family, then I'm going |
| 1:13.5 | to ask that you put your family for the time it's necessary to do some of the things that |
| 1:20.4 | we're talking about today, that you put your family on project status, project status, not just, hey, I'm going to kind of drift into this. |
| 1:32.6 | If your family needs shaping up, cleaning up, refinement, then put it on project status. |
| 1:39.6 | And that's going to require you to say, all right, before I say anything to another member |
| 1:44.1 | of my family, I'm going to sit down and ask, all right, before I say anything to another member of my family, |
| 1:45.0 | I'm going to sit down and ask myself some questions. |
| 1:47.9 | What do we value? |
| 1:49.3 | Do we value harmony? |
| 1:51.1 | Do we live in chaos? |
| 1:52.8 | Then that goes on a to-do list. |
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