Resources for Adults who Cut Ties with a Parent or Family Member
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Podcast Episodes about Cutting Ties with Family
Adult Child hosted by Andrea Ashley. Episode 213: The Truth about Estrangement, Boundaries, No Contact, and Grief.
Therapy Chat hosted by Laura Reagan. Episode 511: Family Estrangement–A New Trend? with Dr. Sharon Martin.
The Sensitivity Doctor (episode 121): Cutting Ties with Toxic Family: What It Is and Why You Might Need To
Awaken Your Wise Woman (episode 17, season 5): Managing Toxic Relationships & Cutting Family Ties
Sensitive Stories (episode 42): Cutting Ties as an HSP
Therapy Chat (episode 450): Cutting Ties with Your Parents
Close the Chapter (episode 291): When to Cut Ties or Set Boundaries with Your Parents
Evidence-Based: A New Harbinger Psychology Podcast: Cutting Ties with Your Parents with Sharon Martin
Family Estrangement Books for Adult Children
Cutting Ties with Your Parents by Sharon Martin
Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members by Sherrie Campbell
But It’s Your Family: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath by Sherrie Campbell
Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role by Rebecca Mandeville
Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People by Lindsay Gibson
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson
Toxic Parents by Susan Forward
If You Had Controlling Parents by Dan Neurharth
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb
The Emotionally Absent Mother by Jasmin Lee Cori
Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Stephanie Kriesberg
Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman
Silent Sons by Robert Ackerman
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker
Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Woititz
The Better Boundaries Workbook by Sharon Martin
Family Estrangement Support Organizations (Non-Profit)
Together Estranged (U.S. based)
Stand Alone (U.K. based)
12-Step Groups
Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families
Estrangement Support Groups, Coaching, and Other Support Services
Adult Child Podcasts
Sherapy Sessions: Cutting Toxic Family Ties (host: Sherrie Campbell)
Adult Child Podcast (host: Andrea Ashely)
Our Whole Childhood (host: Patrick Teahan)
Unfollowing Mum (Harriet Shearsmith)
Therapist Directories
Open Path Collective (lower cost counseling)
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Gaylesta (Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity)
Hotlines
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call 988 or 1-800-273-8255
Blackline (support for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+ affirming): call 1-800-604-584
Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 74174
Trans Lifeline: call 1-877-565-8860
Trevor Lifeline (LGBTQ+ young people): call 1-866-488-7386
If you’re a parent who is estranged from your child, click here for parent resources.