Sherrie Campbell, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping healthy people cut ties with toxic family members. She is a nationally recognized expert on family estrangement, an inspirational speaker, a social media influencer, and author of many books on the theme of toxic and abusive family and how to heal while navigating those biological relationships. In this episode of Therapeutic Astrology Podcast, we tap deeply into toxic family dynamics, emotional abuse, boundaries, family estrangement and healing of it!
Our conversation centers especially around Dr. Sherries latest published book, "You Are Home: Heal from Family Trauma, Establish Boundaries, and Find a Place of Peace and Safety" from 2026. Sherrie speaks not only as a psychologist, but as a survivor who has lived what she writes about! She describes her own journey of breaking free from a toxic family system, "turning predators into purpose," healing out loud, and moving toward redemption rather than revenge and in the book she gives a plan of how to rebuild yourself as your own home after emotionally abuse.
TAP in as we go into topics such has:
• Family estrangement and why going no contact still challenges such a powerful cultural taboo
• Why severing ties with family is rarely a sudden decision, but often the end of a very long history of trying, hoping and being hurt again
• Therapists can support clients exploring estrangement without imposing their own beliefs and judgements about family
• THE WHY of toxic parenting -why they behave as they do don't matter
• Closure, maladaptive guilt, gaslighting and boundaries
• The central metaphor in the book, is that you are your own house! your own structure that belong to you
• We go through the floors, beginning with the basement and our "monsters"
• I also ask Sherrie about the term "the bottom will fall out"
• Boundaries as different levels of access: the porch, the yard, the fence and, when necessary, no contact
• The difference between imperfect parenting and emotional abuse touching on the importance of repair, accountability and making sure a child does not become responsible for a parent's emotions
• Emotional regulation as allowing yourself to fully feel rather than feeling less
• The top floor of the house is your autonomy, and being able to reclaime your identity
• Radical acceptance versus forgiveness
• Becoming your own greatest family and developing a rich inner world that does not depend entirely on other people
Toward the end, we move into astrology, exploring Sherrie's Aries and Libra signatures and her Sun–Chiron conjunction, and the spiritual support she has experienced during some of the darkest periods of her life, esepcially during her Neptune Square.
Hope you get much of this one - recommend it for someone who have had to cut ties with family
LINKS:
https://drsherriecampbell.com/
Sherries own podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sherapy-sessions-the-hows-of-healing-hidden-family-trauma/id1591691842
Mannah:
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