{"podcast":{"title":"Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief & Estrangement","slug":"laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302","podcast_index_feed_id":7639302,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/laughcryscream","website_url":"http://www.griefandhealingwithchris.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3ZnaCA30PfP68e-9F_4N6BgFxkIFZC0EZdn-caYIaTI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMDg0/YWZiZDJhMmMxMTE0/ZmExNjA2Njk0ZGJi/ZDBmYS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Chris Workman","episode_count":19,"summary":"Laugh Cry Scream is a raw, honest, and deeply human podcast about life with grief and estrangement. Hosted by Chris Workman, the show dives into the messy, complicated, and often unspoken parts of loss, family pain, healing, and survival. With real conversations, dark humor, hard truths, and zero fake positivity, this podcast creates space for people who are carrying the weight of grief while trying to keep going. Some days you laugh. Some days you cry. Some days you scream. Here, all of it is welcome.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T22:20:45.455226+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302"},"episode":{"title":"When Your Child Uses “Boundaries” to Shut You Out","slug":"when-your-child-uses-boundaries-to-shut-you-out","published_at":"2026-04-23T07:47:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/when-your-child-uses-boundaries-to-shut-you-out","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302","url":"https://laughcryscream.transistor.fm/s1/4","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/fef75a04/dd4cd33a.mp3","summary":"What happens when the word boundary becomes the end of the relationship instead of the beginning of a real conversation? In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream , Chris Workman and Joe Sassman dig into one of the most painful realities of family estrangement: being cut off by an adult child with little to no conversation, often through language that feels scripted, sudden, and final. They talk about the labels parents hear over and over again like toxic , narcissistic , gaslighting , and boundary , and what it feels like when those words are used as a wall instead of a bridge. This conversation explores: adult child estrangement family boundaries toxic family language therapy and estrangement social media’s influence on family conflict grief after estrangement acceptance without agreement what parents wish their children understood before cutting contact Chris and Joe are not speaking as therapists. They’re speaking as parents trying to survive a deeply painful, complex reality while creating space for other people walking through grief and estrangement too. If you are navigating estrangement, grief, emotional loss, or complicated family dynamics, this episode is for you. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and join the conversation below. https://www.laughcryscream.com 00:00 Intro and opening banter 01:10 Are all boundaries automatically right? 03:05 When “this is my boundary” becomes a shutdown 05:30 Toxic, narcissistic, gaslighting: the repeated script 08:20 Therapy, timeouts, and the missing conversation 12:00 Parenting without perfection 16:15 Why nuance matters in family conflict 19:40 Social media, influence, and borrowed language 23:20 Immediate gratification and instant emotional cutoffs 26:10 What happens when parents respect the boundary 29:10 Acc…","meta_description":"What happens when the word boundary becomes the end of the relationship instead of the beginning of a real conversation? In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Sc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2188,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/episodes/when-your-child-uses-boundaries-to-shut-you-out/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/when-your-child-uses-boundaries-to-shut-you-out.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}