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You Can Handle Anything, and That's the Problem: Capacity vs. Capability When You Were Raised by a Toxic Parent
Jun 23, 2026
12m 09s
How to Survive Father's Day When You Were Raised by a Toxic Parent
Jun 16, 2026
15m 00s
Stop Explaining Your Boundary to Your Toxic Parent
Jun 9, 2026
13m 35s
Setting the Boundary Is Only Part One: What Most Cycle Breakers Miss
Jun 2, 2026
13m 54s
Gaslighting and Self-Doubt: Why You Can't Trust Yourself When You Were Raised by a Parent with Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder
May 26, 2026
13m 14s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 |  You Can Handle Anything, and That's the Problem: Capacity vs. Capability When You Were Raised by a Toxic Parent | Too many cycle breakers know that moment when your phone lights up with the latest family emergency and you drop everything to try to calm the storm. When you grow up with a narcissistic parent or a parent with unmanaged borderline personality disorder, you learn early on that keeping the peace is what keeps you safe. So, when there's a crisis, of course you spring into action. In this episode we dive into: The difference between what you're capable of and what you actually have the capacity ... | 12m 09s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | How to Survive Father's Day When You Were Raised by a Toxic Parent | When grow up with a toxic parent, Father's Day isn't an exciting celebration. It's a loaded weekend that sits heavy on your nervous system. And it's why the week leading up to it can leave you feeling completely drained before you even get to the main event. In this episode you'll learn: Why the week before and after Father's Day can feel just as heavy as the day itselfHow to make an intentional choice about your scrolling instead of letting it quietly wreck your weekA self-compassion practic... | 15m 00s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | Stop Explaining Your Boundary to Your Toxic Parent✨ | boundariesnarcissistic parents+3 | — | — | — | boundariesnarcissism+3 | — | 13m 35s | |
| 6/2/26 | Setting the Boundary Is Only Part One: What Most Cycle Breakers Miss✨ | boundariesnarcissistic parents+3 | — | — | — | boundariesnarcissism+3 | — | 13m 54s | |
| 5/26/26 | Gaslighting and Self-Doubt: Why You Can't Trust Yourself When You Were Raised by a Parent with Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder✨ | gaslightingself-doubt+4 | — | — | — | gaslightingself-doubt+5 | — | 13m 14s | |
| 5/19/26 | Toxic In-Laws: What to Do When Your Partner Won't Stand Up to Their Family✨ | toxic in-lawspartner support+3 | — | — | — | toxic in-lawsfamily dynamics+3 | — | 18m 18s | |
| 5/12/26 | How to Cope With Mother's Day Hangover When You Have a Mom with Borderline or Narcissistic Traits✨ | Mother's Dayemotional hangover+3 | — | — | — | Mother's Day hangovernarcissistic mother+3 | — | 13m 18s | |
| 5/5/26 | Why "I'll Never Lose My Temper Again" Backfires When You're a Cycle Breaker Raised by a Parent with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder✨ | cycle breakingborderline personality disorder+4 | — | — | — | cycle breakerborderline personality disorder+5 | — | 16m 15s | |
| 4/28/26 | How to Survive Mother's Day When You Have a Mom with Borderline or Narcissistic Traits✨ | Mother's DayBorderline Personality Disorder+3 | — | — | — | Mother's DayBorderline Personality Disorder+3 | — | 23m 05s | |
| 4/22/26 | It's Not Just Your Parent. It's Your Whole Family System.✨ | family dynamicsnarcissistic personality disorder+3 | — | — | — | narcissismborderline+3 | — | 22m 00s | |
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| 4/14/26 | What It’s Like to Have a Parent with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder✨ | borderline personality disordernarcissistic personality disorder+3 | — | — | — | borderline personality disordernarcissistic personality disorder+3 | — | 34m 27s | |
| 4/7/26 | Breaking the Cycle Is Complicated: Here’s a Roadmap✨ | dysfunctionmental health+4 | — | — | — | dysfunctionmental health+4 | — | 17m 34s | |
| 4/1/26 | Does Your Parent Mean to Hurt You? Why Intent Doesn’t Matter (and What Actually Does)✨ | parental relationshipsemotional abuse+4 | — | — | — | hurtoverreacting+4 | — | 14m 39s | |
| 3/24/26 | Why You Intellectualize Your Feelings (and Why It’s So Hard to Stop)✨ | emotional disconnectionintellectualization+3 | — | — | — | intellectualizationfeelings+3 | — | 16m 11s | |
| 3/17/26 | Forgiveness Is Overrated: What Actually Helps You Heal from a Toxic Parent✨ | forgivenesshealing+3 | — | — | — | forgivenesshealing+3 | — | 23m 12s | |
| 3/10/26 | The Basic Needs Cycle Breakers Often Ignore (And How This Wrecks Your Mental Health)✨ | mental healthnarcissistic parents+3 | — | — | — | basic needsmental health+5 | — | 17m 53s | |
| 3/3/26 | I Could Win a Gold Medal in Overexplaining Myself: Growing Up With a Narcissistic Parent✨ | narcissistic parentoverexplaining+3 | — | — | — | narcissismoverexplaining+3 | — | 20m 57s | |
| 2/24/26 | The Guilt Trap: How This Tricky Emotion Keeps Cycle Breakers Stuck | In this episode, we explore: Why guilt feels so overwhelming for adult children of emotionally immature and narcissistic parentsHow dysfunctional family systems train you to equate guilt with being a bad personThe difference between healthy guilt and manipulative guiltWhy avoiding guilt keeps you stuck in the toxic cycleHow to approach difficult decisions without avoiding or agreeing to things beyond your capacityLearning to sit with guilt instead of immediately jumping into avoidance or prob... | 21m 05s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | When Parents Say They’re “Walking on Eggshells” Around You: The Truth About Power, Boundaries, and Gaslighting | If you grew up with a parent who had narcissistic or borderline traits, you may have heard this when you started setting boundaries, going to therapy, or naming the dysfunction in your family. In this episode of You’re Not Crazy, we unpack: Why “walking on eggshells” is not the same thing in a parent-child relationshipThe lifelong power imbalance that doesn’t magically disappear when you turn 18Why toxic parents often say this when you stop being compliantHow this narrative twists reality and... | 17m 08s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | When Dysfunction Is “Normal”: Subtle Emotional Abuse in Toxic Families and Why It’s So Damaging | In this episode of You’re Not Crazy, therapist and boundaries coach Torie Wiksell breaks down common behaviors that toxic families often label as “normal,” but that are actually deeply damaging and abusive. We talk about why these dynamics are so confusing, why they impact you as deeply as they do, and why your reactions are not a personal flaw. You’ll learn: Why emotional and psychological abuse in families is often minimized or dismissedHow power and control shape parent-child dynamic... | 19m 26s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Why Setting Boundaries With Toxic Parents Is So Hard (And What Most People Get Wrong) | In this episode of You're Not Crazy, I walk through the most common reasons boundaries fail with narcissistic, emotionally immature, and toxic parents. Not because you did it wrong, but because most people are taught a version of boundaries that doesn’t account for manipulation, emotional dysregulation, guilt, or the survival responses cycle breakers carry into adulthood. We talk about: -Why using the word “boundary” often backfires with toxic parents -What a boundary actually is (and why it’... | 16m 56s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | Why This Feels So Familiar: Toxic Parents, Abuse, and What’s Happening in the U.S. | The gaslighting, denial, deflection, and rewriting of reality mirror the dynamics many adults grew up with in toxic or narcissistic family systems. Torie explains how ongoing trauma impacts emotional capacity, why trauma that is still happening cannot be healed (only coped with), and how the pressure to respond perfectly often leads to paralysis. For listeners who feel overwhelmed, stuck, and at a loss for how to move forward right now, this episode provides context, validation, and grounded ... | 19m 32s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | Breaking the Cycle Is Messy: Learning How to Be an Emotionally Healthy Adult | Most cycle breakers know exactly what they don’t want to repeat. But knowing what not to do is very different from knowing how to be an emotionally healthy adult, especially when emotional regulation, boundaries, and healthy relationships were never modeled for you. In this episode of You’re Not Crazy, we talk about why learning emotional health as a cycle breaker is often messy, uncomfortable, and filled with shame. We explore the fear of “becoming your parent,” the pressure to get it right ... | 21m 13s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | Self-Doubt After Growing Up With a Toxic Parent: Why You Gaslight Yourself and How to Move Forward | Self-doubt is one of the most common and paralyzing struggles for cycle breakers. In this episode of the You’re Not Crazy Podcast, Torie explains why chronic self-doubt is not a personality flaw, but a trauma response rooted in long-term gaslighting and emotional invalidation. You’ll learn how growing up in a toxic family system trains you to distrust your own memories, emotions, and decisions, and why self-doubt often shows up most intensely when you start setting boundaries, becoming more a... | 19m 21s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | Cycle Breaking in 2026: Diagnoses, Grief, and the Reality of Loving a Toxic Parent | This episode is about nuance. It’s about why labels like narcissistic personality disorder, borderline traits, or “toxic parent” can feel both clarifying and overwhelming, and why healing does not actually depend on getting a definitive diagnosis. I talk about: Why patterns of behavior matter more than labelsHow gaslighting, emotional volatility, shame, and walking on eggshells shape adult childrenWhy many cycle breakers grow up in “two realities” with the same parentThe grief, relief, anger,... | 27m 33s | ||||||
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