Latchkey Urchins & Friends
Episodes
73 episodes
S3.E13. Season 3 Finale - Anne and Alison Reflect
Anne and Alison reflect on all the ways they've grown as a result of committing to this podcast. It's filled with lots of love and gratitude!
SP3.4 - Enlightenment is Expensive
Struggle Party episodes are a change for Alison and Anne to share what they’re reading, watching, or listening to. They each share one struggle and how they used tools to get through it.Topics:Charlotte Kasl's books...
S3.E12. Repairing Rupture for Avoidant & Anxious Attachment Styles—Elizabeth Gillette
Elizabeth Gillette is back for a Part II discussion on insecure attachment and how to repair ruptures or conflicts.Elizabeth Gillette teaches courses that help people feel grounded, healthy, and whole in their relationships—because how y...
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S3.E11. A for Avoidant & Anxious Attachment—Elizabeth Gillette
Elizabeth Gillette teaches courses that help people feel grounded, healthy, and whole in their relationships—because how you experience relationships impacts everything else.She is an attachment specialist, author, therapist, mother, and...
SP3.3 - Struggle Party: Find the Right Therapist and Take Some Drugs
Struggle Parties are a change for Anne and Alison to share a struggle their going through and tools to get through. They also share what they're reading, watching, or listening to right now that they recommend. Right now Anne and A...
S3.E10. Creating Positive Childhoods: Here's What Works—Sharon Hirsch
Sharon Hirsch serves as the President and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina, where she leads a team that focuses on making prevention a priority for NC and building capacity for communities to have the knowledge, support, and res...
S3.E9. Religious Trauma: Escaping the Threat of Hell—Joe and Mendy McNulty
We interview Joe and Mendy McNulty, a husband and wife who are both former Pastors, about their lives growing up in the Church of the Nazarene, a fundamentalist Christian faith. They share how they left the church after years of working as head...
S3.E8. Better Together: Group vs Individual Therapy—Karla Amanda Brown
We interview Karla Amanda Brown about her journey in becoming a therapist and why group therapy is so important for healing. Karla Amanda Brown is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider, Level ...
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S3.E7. Homeschool Fanatics & Friends—w/ Simón Lowrie
Alison's long-time friend Simón Lowrie joins the pod to talk about his experience growing up homeschooled with one of his brothers while their older brother was a child prodigy. We discuss both the merits and shortcomings of deciding to homesch...
SP3.2 - Struggle Party: The M Word
Anne and Alison share:what they're reading, watching, or listening to right now and their cultural reflectionsa struggle they're each going through and tools they're using to grow and get through it
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S3.E6. Puppies & Divorce: The 3rd Annual Holiday Episode—w/cohost Kyle Kimball
We got 5 listener-submitted stories about Latchkey, awkward, painful, neglectful, or loving family holiday stories—some funny, some sentimental. Join hosts Anne and Alison with guest cohost Kyle Kimball, refugee lawyer, and our guest from Seaso...
S3.E5. The Warmth of Nurturance: Healing Frozen Brains and Childhoods—Dr. Darcia Narvaez
We interview Darcia Narvaez, co-author of the book The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, is...
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SP3.1 - Struggle Party: The Algorithm
Anne and Alison share what they're currently reading, watching, and listening to. They each share one thing they've been struggling with lately and how they've gotten through.
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S3.E4. Opening Our Hearts to the Homeless—Kevin Adler, Miracle Messages
We interview Kevin Adler about his new book, out today, When We Walk: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America. Kevin F. Adler is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the au...
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S3.E3. Mobbing: When Families Outcast the Truthteller—Stephanie Sellers, PhD
We interview Stephanie Sellers, PhD about her book Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing. Family mobbing is a group act of aggression that targets a family member. It can be typified by a single act of violence or a pattern of abuse over years....
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S3.E2. They Did Their Best: How We Normalize Abuse—GeAnne Meta
Anne and Alison talk with Geanne Meta, author of Parenting Well After Childhood Abuse, Be a Great Parent Even if Yours Were Crap. Geanne (pronounced Ge-Anne) is a mom, sister, wife, grandmom, friend, animal rescuer, good cook - and also, a chil...
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S3.E1. The Safety Dance: Embodied Healing—Heidi Andersen
We're back for Season 3! We start this season off by speaking with Heidi Andersen, body-centered psychotherapist about why trauma healing has to happen in the body, not just the mind. Heidi Andersen is the founder of
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S2.E17. Season 2 Finale: Anne and Alison Reflect
Anne and Alison look back at moments from Season 2 and share how they've grown from the teachings of their wise guests.
S2.E16. Turning ACEs into Art—with guest Caleb Nichols, poet & musician
We interview Caleb Nichols about his experience growing up with many adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how he has turned those experiences into art through his writing and music...
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S2.E15. Relationships, Intimacy, & Trauma—with Jayson Gaddis, relationship expert
Anne and Alison talk to relationship expert Jayson Gaddis on his path to healing his childhood wounds through the teachings of his romantic relationships. He shares the moment he stopped viewing himself as the victim in his failed relationships...
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Bonus: Struggle Party - The F—ing Scrolling!
Bonus episode! Anne and Alison share:A struggle party (something we're struggling with)A glimmer (moment of joy and connection)What we're currently reading, watching, and listening to that we recommend...
S2.E14. Trance-formation: Healing through Trance and Transformational Coaching—with Christina Berkley, life coach
Anne and Alison talk with transformational life coach, Christina Berkley about her childhood as a latchkey kid, Canadian immigrant from Romania, her journey healing her own trauma, and how that lead her to work as a coach. Trance and plant medi...
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S2.E13. Why Can't You Get It Together? The Scapegoat Sibling in Dysfunctional Families—Caroline Bell & Anne Sherry share
This week we discuss dysfunctional family roles and dynamics including scapegoat, hero, golden child, caretaker, identified patient, rebel, and more. Anne and Caroline share their stories of growing up Gen X with wild older brothers who grew up...
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S2.E12. Recovering from Burnout Culture—with guest Tabitha Scott, author
We interview author and speaker Tabitha A. Scott about her healing journey away from corporate burnout culture. She documents her journey in the award-winning book, Trust Your Animal Instincts.
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S2.E11. It Was Complex-PTSD the Whole Time!—with guest Mary Giuliani, author
We interview author and coach Mary Giuliani about her new book, It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD. Mary Giuliani is in long-term recovery from alcohol, drugs, food addiction, and seve...
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