Our Whole Childhood with Patrick Teahan

Overcoming Childhood Guilt & Reparenting Your Inner Child

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW explores the heavy burden of guilt carried by childhood trauma survivors. When growing up in a toxic or dysfunctional family, childre

4 Reasons It Feels Like Failure

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores the hidden psychological barriers that prevent childhood trauma survivors from reaching their personal and professional goa

When Therapy is Actually GOOD

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, steps away from the teleprompter to share real testimonials from his community about the life-changing impact of good therapy. While

The Mind of the Artist w/ William Todd Schultz

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, is joined by personality psychologist William Todd Schultz to explore the complicated emotional landscape of family estrangement and

Explode or Shut Down? The 2 Types of Repressed Rage

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores the profound impact of rage as a byproduct of childhood trauma, detailing how unsafe environments force children to either

Why You Blame Yourself for Everything

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores the profound impact of growing up in an abusive or neglectful environment, detailing how childhood trauma survivors often s

Top 3 Signs of Growing up Too Fast

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores the profound impact of unsafe home environments, detailing how childhood trauma forces kids to trade their early years for

Are You Sure They're Safe?

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, dives into the complex world of intuition and safety: how childhood trauma can break our internal radar and how to tell the differen

When History Repeats: The Golden Child Gets Betrayed

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores a difficult and personal topic: how abusive family dynamics can scale into larger systems, and what happens when legal auth

My Highschool Bully

In this episode, Patrick, explores why memories of school bullies can still feel visceral years later, even after you have done a lot of healing work. Using a poll with o

The Feeling of Being “In Trouble”

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores the baseline feeling of being “in trouble”, that constant sense that someone is mad at you, you did something wrong, or you

Ireland—Where Flashbacks Pass Away

In this episode, Patrick shares a personal story about what it can look like when long-held trauma responses begin to loosen after years of recovery work and how flashbac

Was This Your Family? (9 Oddly Specific Family Issues)

In this episode, Patrick Teahan, MSW, explores nine rarely named but deeply damaging family dynamics that quietly shape childhood trauma and follow people into adulthood.

5 Types of Lost Childhood Personalities

This episode explores how childhood trauma and emotionally unsafe parenting can cause us to lose touch with our original personality, the self we were born with before su

Why Are Victims Expected to Do All the Work?

This episode tells the story of Thomas, a survivor who went no contact with his abusive father after a public meltdown at his wedding, and how the world around him quietl

Toxic Mothers and the Impact on Daughters

This episode explores how growing up with a toxic or emotionally unavailable mother can shape a daughter’s sense of worth, identity, and boundaries, and how to finally br

Breaking Free From a Narcissistic Parent

This episode explores how growing up with a narcissistic or emotionally immature parent can distort your perception of yourself, others, and your worth, and how to reclai

4 Tools to Fix Triggers

This episode dives into the ways childhood trauma shows up in daily triggers—and how to break free from them faster. Learn how your past shapes present reactions and disc

Answering Your Questions! - Social Challenges

This episode explores the ways childhood trauma survivors often feel left out in friendships and social situations, and how those early family patterns show up in adult c

Stop Fawning with Dr. Ingrid Clayton

In this episode, Patrick sits down with Dr. Ingrid Clayton to unpack fawning, the often-missed, deeply relational trauma response: why “people-pleasing” isn’t what it see