MOMENT | Do you have a dysfunctional family? with Julia Samuel MBE

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Julia Samuel. In this conversation, we discuss a subject that’s often difficult to talk about: what happens when our family is dysfunctional. We cover how to recognise if we’re operating in that environment. And how do we know when it’s time to set boundaries, or even take the painful step of cutting contact altogether? Julia shares her perspective on what truly defines a dysfunctional family, the emotional toll it can take, and the complexity of navigating those relationships. She reminds us that there’s no simple formula, every situation is unique, but that protecting our emotional and mental well-being sometimes means making tough, heartbreaking choices. To listen to more on this conversation with Julia Samuels, listen to the full episode here. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.4	Hey everyone and welcome to this week's Motherkind moment, your place on a Monday for calm connection
1:23.7	and maybe even a shift in perspective before the crazy week ahead. This week's moment is
1:29.7	with the incredible Julia Samuel. It is a really important topic, this, but one that is often
1:36.7	so hard to talk about, which is when we might have a dysfunctional family. How do we know that we're
1:43.9	operating in that environment? How do we know whether we might have a dysfunctional family, how do we know that we're operating in that environment?
1:45.7	How do we know whether we might have to do the really hard thing of cutting certain family members
1:51.5	off or setting boundaries? Well, this short clip is going to explain all of that and more.
1:57.7	Here it is. When we think about families, I guess it's easy to think about
2:03.6	healthy families as we've touched on and dysfunctional families. Do you believe in that sort of
2:10.1	segregation? Talk to that. How does someone know if they're in a dysfunctional family and what
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