Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind
The Badass Confidence Coach is your go-to podcast for high-achieving women and men ready to step into their full potential. Hosted by Anna Marolin, therapist, life coach, and 20-year triathlete, this show is not your average therapy session. Anna is on a mission to empower everyone to overcome their self-doubt, crush their goals, and live their most badass lives.
Tune in to discover practical strategies, candid conversations, and actionable advice to conquer the challenges holding you back. From battling loneliness and anxiety to mastering mindset shifts and embracing self-love, Anna dives deep into the struggles we all face, alongside insightful guest interviews and engaging discussions with her husband, Tim.
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Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind
264. When They Don't Show Up: Anger, Betrayal, and Family Disappointment
There are moments when life cracks open, and someone has to step forward. A parent lands in the hospital. A sibling relapses. A marriage falls apart. And suddenly it becomes painfully clear who shows up and who disappears. The anger that follows is not mild frustration; it is rage, shock, grief, and a deep sense of betrayal that cuts into how family is understood.
Join Anna and Tim as they unpack what happens when family members fail to show up during crisis, especially around the holidays. They explore why these moments feel unrecoverable, how attachment and unspoken family contracts shape expectations, and why anger often masks something far more painful underneath.
This Episode Covers:
- Why the holidays amplify family anger, disappointment, and old wounds.
- The shock of realizing someone’s character does not match who you thought they were.
- Attachment, unspoken family contracts, and expectations that go without saying.
- Moral outrage and moral injury when family values are violated.
- The loneliness and abandonment felt when you are the one who shows up.
- Common family roles in crisis, including the hero, avoider, minimizer, and intellectualizer.
- Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses during family emergencies.
- How anger becomes a protective cover for grief, fear, and pain.
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Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.
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