Quickie: How toxic is your family?

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This episode heads into the heart of the family unit and looks at what toxic behaviours might lie within. Anna and Polly look at their own behaviours within that family dynamic and what a boundary looks like with your blood relatives. Happy families, indeed. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:15.0	Welcome to this Dirty Motherpucker, Quickie, your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna Whitehouse,
0:20.9	the founder of Motherpucker.
0:22.5	And I'm going to let you introduce yourself, both.
0:24.6	Well, I am Polly Hazelwood.
0:26.4	Actually, do you know what?
0:27.2	No.
0:27.3	I'll just do it.
0:27.9	Polyhazerwood over there.
0:28.9	Thanks.
0:29.3	Okay.
0:29.8	There you go.
0:31.1	So, two big words today.
0:33.2	Toxic families. So this episode, we want to dig deep on the toxicity within our own four
0:41.1	walls and try and come out unscathed and not blocked and not isolated from our family.
0:46.4	I loved what American novelist Lisa Gardner said. So her thriller is called ominously Crash
0:53.0	and Burn. She says, your family is both your best chance of unconditional love and the best chance of disaster.
1:00.2	These are the people who love you the most and hurt you the worst.
1:04.3	And that's true of any family, not just those with dark secrets.
1:08.4	Who's the most toxic person in your family?
1:10.7	And is it you? I have thought about
1:12.2	this. Do you think it is you? Slightly worried, it is me. No, it's definitely not me. To be honest with you,
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