All Things TDS

What happens when a mother leaves her children, returns to reclaim them, and discovers that herstory has already been written by someone else?.
In the first episode of this three-part series, Berdie shares her deeply personal experience withpostpartum mental health struggles, financial hardship, family separation, and the adoption of herthree young children.
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

In Episode 1, I showed you the pattern.In Episode 2, I bring the receipts that show you how it is built.
We go directly into HuffPost articles about toxic parents, narcissistic parents, boundaries, and estrangement to examine the exact language, the professional authority behind it, what is established, and what is assumed.
Throughout this episode, I’m going to reference HuffPost directly and identify the authors of the specific articles we discuss. My focus is not one isolated article. I’m examining what I believe is a repeated editorial pattern across HuffPost’s coverage of toxic parents, narcissistic parents, low contact, no contact, and family estrangement.
Source and contributor note: statements discussed in this episode are based on quotations and attributions appearing in the published HuffPost articles. When this episode states that a contributor “said” something, it means HuffPost attributes that statement to that contributor. Unless otherwise specified in the article, the podcast does not know the original interview question, complete conversation, or additional context surrounding the quotation. This episode analyzes how the statements are presented and framed in the published articles.
Sources 
“5 Signs You're Dealing With A Toxic Parent As An Adult (And How To Cope)” Kelsey Borresen.
“9 Phrases Narcissistic Parents Use And How They Affect Their Kids” Caroline Bologna
“How To ‘Break Up’ With A Narcissistic Parent” Brittany Wong.
“After I Cut Off Contact From My Mother, I Was Shocked By The Brutal Move My Sisters Made” Lea Page.
“Oprah Wanted To Talk About Adult Kids Cutting Off Their Parents. What I Heard Made My Blood Run Cold.” Lea Page.
“I Cut Off Contact With My Mother. The Estrangement Transformed My Own Parenting.” Asha Dore. 
“What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?”  American Psychiatric Association, January 30, 2024.
Reczek, Rin, Lawrence Stacey & Mieke Beth Thomeer “Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality.” Journal of Marriage and Family, first published December 1, 2022; Volume 85, Issue 2, 2023.
Karl Pillemer / Cornell Chronicle  “Pillemer: Family estrangement a problem ‘hiding in plain sight’” (September 2020).
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, Dr. Traci examines a pattern across HuffPost’s coverage of toxic parents, narcissism, low contact, no contact, and family estrangement. Rather than analyzing each article individually, this episode looks at the cumulative message: the labels, the professional authority, the psychological framing, the social proof, what gets left out, and how that content reaches families through social media.Episode 1 is about the pattern.Episode 2 is about the receipts.
Throughout this episode, I’m going to reference HuffPost directly and identify the authors of the specific articles we discuss. My focus is not one isolated article. I’m examining what I believe is a repeated editorial pattern across HuffPost’s coverage of toxic parents, narcissistic parents, low contact, no contact, and family estrangement.
Source and contributor note: statements discussed in this episode are based on quotations and attributions appearing in the published HuffPost articles. When this episode states that a contributor “said” something, it means HuffPost attributes that statement to that contributor. Unless otherwise specified in the article, the podcast does not know the original interview question, complete conversation, or additional context surrounding the quotation. This episode analyzes how the statements are presented and framed in the published articles.
Sources
“5 Signs You're Dealing With A Toxic Parent As An Adult (And How To Cope)” Kelsey Borresen.
“9 Phrases Narcissistic Parents Use And How They Affect Their Kids” Caroline Bologna.
“How To ‘Break Up’ With A Narcissistic Parent” Brittany Wong. 
“After I Cut Off Contact From My Mother, I Was Shocked By The Brutal Move My Sisters Made” Lea Page.
“Oprah Wanted To Talk About Adult Kids Cutting Off Their Parents. What I Heard Made My Blood Run Cold.” Lea Page.
“I Cut Off Contact With My Mother. The Estrangement Transformed My Own Parenting.” Asha Dore.
“What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?” American Psychiatric Association, January 30, 2024. 
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.
 

Before releasing our new two-part series examining HuffPost’s coverage of family estrangement, we are returning to Andrea Tate's HuffPost episode that started it all. 
This is one of our earliest and most-listened-to episodes. It is passionate, personal, and presented exactly as it originally aired.
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

For the first time on All Things TDS Podcast, a parent joins me to tell her estrangement story in her own words.
Carolyn shares how a relationship that was once incredibly close changed over time, how what she believed would be a short break in communication became more than five years of estrangement, and what she has learned along the way.
This is a conversation about accountability, grief, acceptance, support, and hope.
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

In this episode, Dr. Traci examines the patterns that turn moral certainty intosuperiority, disagreement into a character defect, contempt into justifiedmistreatment, and personal conviction into self-appointed authority over someoneelse.
The Clancy trial is one public example. The same patterns can enter families whencommunication becomes a demand for agreement and when refusing to acceptanother person’s interpretation comes with imposed consequences.
What happens to communication, relationships, and independent judgment whenagreement becomes the only acceptable response?
These are the sources directly supporting the factual material in the current episode. Ourdiscussion of Radical Woke Righteousness, contempt, boundaries, communication, andestrangement is our analysis, not material taken from an outside source.
 
Sources
CBS Saturday Morning — Paula Devlin discusses what she believed the case could change.
CBS Boston/WBZ — Interview with Juror No. 5
NewsNation — Ray Marcel recounts his private interview with Mr. Juror.
ABC News — Mr. Juror disputes the other jurors’ account.
CBS Boston — Kevin Reddington’s remarks after the mistrial.
NBC10 Boston — Investigation of Mr. Juror’s personal history.
CBS News — Dismissed charge and confidential juror questionnaire.
Boston Globe — Identification and investigation of the holdout juror.
Associated Press — Mr. Juror’s statement and current circumstances.
People — Attorney’s statements about Mr. Juror.
New York Post — Attorney reports threats and harassment
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

In this episode, Dr. Traci examines the Radical Woke Righteousness surrounding the Clancy case: how compassion became certainty, how compassion depended on who needed it, and how a radical woke worldview transformed a criminal trial into a feminist cause.
This episode does not deny the seriousness of postpartum psychosis. It confronts what happened when women claiming to advocate for mental health manipulated evidence, spread conspiracy theories, ignored the facts, and condemned anyone who challenged their preferred conclusion.
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.
*This is a fluid and developing situation. The information discussed reflects what was publicly available when this episode was recorded. As court proceedings and investigations continue, reported facts, allegations, and legal claims may be clarified, challenged, or changed.
 
Sources- 
Associated Press: Women in pink rally for Lindsay ClancyReuters: Clancy’s post-mistrial motion and reported 11–1 splitNBC10 Boston: Extended interview with Paula Devlin, Roni Carlson, and Kellie FarinaNew York Post: Anonymous juror’s “figurative smoking gun” commentsNew York Post: Supporters interrupt the district attorneyCT Insider: Kevin Reddington and 16,500 TikTok videos
The Guardian: “Forensic fandom,” Patrick conspiracy theories, and corroborated CVSlocationABC News: Nick Reiner’s conservatorshipABC News: Charges against Nick ReinerAssociated Press: Corie and Barrett WalshPeople: Corie’s group-chat statement and attorney’s mental-health claimPeople: Patrick’s response to the allegations and reported threats
 

This is Part 3 of a three-part series on family estrangement.
In this episode, we examine abuse, mental illness, and substance abuse and the role they can playin estrangement. These issues can affect either the parent or the adult child, and when childrenare involved, the responsibility of the other parent to protect them also matters.
Not every family experiences these issues in the same way, and not every estrangement has thesame outcome. This episode is about looking at what happened, acknowledging the harm, and placingresponsibility where it belongs.
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

This episode is Part 2 of a three part series, we examine the parent’s side of a relationship moving toward estrangement. 
We discuss what parents can take responsibility for without taking responsibility for choices that were not theirs. This episode is about accountability, perspective, and learning to hold two truths at once: a parent can recognize where they contributed to the breakdown and still acknowledge the pain, loss, and consequences they experienced along the way.
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.

This episode is Part 1 of a three-part series examining estrangement between parents andadult children.
Estrangement is often explained by focusing on what a parent did. This episode asks a differentquestion: How did estrangement become the response you were willing to choose?
This is not about deciding whether estrangement is always right or wrong. It is about examiningthe pathway to that decision with greater honesty, complexity, and personal responsibility.
Because understanding estrangement requires more than explaining what someone else did. Italso requires understanding how you arrived at the choice you made.
 
The All Things TDS Podcast is intended for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. 
This podcast is not therapy, not mental health treatment, and not individualized advice. No therapeutic relationship is created by listening to or interacting with this podcast or its social media content.
The goal of this podcast is to encourage thoughtful discussion, not to replace independent judgment or individualized professional care.