Mom On Mute
Mom on Mute is a podcast about family estrangement, going no contact, and the complicated relationships between parents and adult children. Each episode pulls back the curtain on why people cut ties with family, what leads to estranged parents and adult children, and what life looks like after family separation. Through honest conversations and personal stories, the show explores toxic family dynamics, difficult parent-child relationships, and the emotional reality of rebuilding a life when the people you expected to be there are not. Apply to be a guest, and connect with us at MomOnMute.com
Episodes
What happens when your child doesn’t just walk away… but is pulled away?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Holly Bridgeman from Holly In Real Life, shares her story of estrangement and parental alienation, and how an outside influence changed everything she thought she knew about her relationship with her sons.
A young single mother who built her life around her children, Holly did what many parents do, sacrificed everything to raise...
Hosts of the Estranged and Deranged podcast, Chris and Cand join Mom On Mute's Mindy to discuss what happens when estrangement collides with grief… and no one is willing to talk about it honestly?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, we sit down with Candi and Chris, hosts of the podcast Estranged and Deranged, to unpack the reality of family estrangement from a parent’s perspective. Both women have experienced not only estrangement fro...
What if estrangement wasn’t the end of your story… but the beginning of a completely new life?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Kimber Hardick, founder of the Facebook group called Parenting Forward Finding Strength After Estrangement, shares how she moved through the pain of estrangement and rebuilt her life from the inside out. What started as confusion, grief, and emotional spiraling became a powerful journey of self-awareness, h...
Can estrangement actually lead to healing or does it just create more distance?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Jessica Louise shares what it really takes to move from family estrangement into personal healing. Speaking from lived experience on both sides, as an estranged daughter and a parent, she breaks down the deeper patterns behind going no contact and why so many families struggle to repair the relationship.
This conversation...
What happens when a place you trusted to keep your child safe becomes the reason you lose them?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Sandy Rusk shares how her daughter first got involved with a mega church at just 14 years old and how that relationship slowly replaced their own. What started as a safe environment turned into years of distance, influence, and control that ultimately led to complete estrangement.
Sandy walks through the p...
Why do adult children go no contact with their parents? And how does family estrangement happen even when parents believe they were trying to do the right thing?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Mindy speaks with therapist Carissa about the complicated reality of family estrangement, estranged parents, and adult children who create distance from their families. Together they explore how dynamics like financial support, blurred bound...
What happens when the relationship between parents and adult children breaks down to the point of estrangement?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Mindy speaks with therapist Peter H. Anderson (LMFT) about family estrangement, forgiveness, and the difficult reality many families face when communication collapses.
Peter shares his personal story of growing up with an alcoholic father, the resentment he carried for years, and how faith ...
How childhood experiences shape estrangement and parent-child relationships
Healing often begins when we stop repeating old patterns and learn to release control.
What happens when the patterns you grew up with quietly shape the way you parent, love, and handle conflict decades later?
In this episode of Mom on Mute, Mindy sits down with Coach Barb G to explore how childhood trauma, family dynamics, and learned behaviors rippl...
What happens when your adult child goes no contact and you are left with no explanation?
In this first episode of Mom on Mute, Mindy shares what it is like to be a 66 year old mother estranged from her adult daughter for five years, and why the current conversation around family estrangement feels incomplete.
After years in therapy and searching for answers about mother daughter estrangement, no contact families, and generational b...
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