216 {Aimee Hudson} Healing from a Mother who couldn’t love me
From Challenges That Change Us by Ali Flynn
May 10, 2026 · 57 min · Season 1 · Episode 216
About this episode
Aimee Hudson shares her journey of healing from emotional abuse and estrangement from her mother, exploring the impact of parental attachment on mental health.
Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Imagine having a parent tell you they don’t love you, and then being left to heal from that. That was Aimee Hudsons experience in her early 20’s and it drove her to learn and understand the influence of parental attachment. Aimee is a clinically registered psychotherapist who is deeply passionate about helping people understand how they came to be ‘them’. Her work is grounded in attachment, trauma, and nervous system-informed approaches, supporting individuals and couples to make sense of their patterns and gently shift towards new ways of relating to themselves and others. She is the director of The Psych Collaborative: an online psychology clinic, co-host of The Psychology Sisters podcast, and founder of The Thriving Therapist, where she supports therapists to grow in confidence, clarity, and community. In this episode she shares: - Her early childhood and the emotional abuse she experienced - The moment she confronted her mother - Her experience of estrangement and what leads to it - The earlier…
People in this episode
Host: Ali Flynn
Guest: Aimee Hudson
Topics covered
- parental attachment
- emotional abuse
- estrangement
- mental health
- trauma
- nervous system
Keywords
- burnout
- parental attachment
- emotional abuse
- estrangement
- mental health
- trauma
- nervous system
- psychotherapy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The Psych Collaborative, The Psychology Sisters, The Thriving Therapist
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