{"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":"Why Estranged Parents Stop Talking About Their Grief","slug":"why-estranged-parents-stop-talking-about-their-grief","published_at":"2026-05-16T18:18:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/why-estranged-parents-stop-talking-about-their-grief","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302","url":"https://laughcryscream.transistor.fm/s1/9","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/004a9717/765d2dd3.mp3","summary":"Estranged parents are grieving too. But many stop talking about it because every conversation starts to feel dangerous. In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream , Chris Workman talks honestly about the silence many estranged parents fall into after being dismissed, judged, blamed, or emotionally shut down. This conversation explores: why estranged parents start censoring themselves the fear of being labeled “toxic” or “narcissistic” how grief changes when nobody wants to hear your side the emotional exhaustion of defending your pain why silence is not always healing the difference between accountability and public humiliation This is not a parent-bashing episode. It’s a nuanced conversation about grief, identity, rejection, and what happens when parents no longer feel emotionally safe enough to speak honestly. If you’ve ever felt erased, silenced, or afraid to talk about your estrangement out loud… this episode is for you. Website/resources: Grief & Healing With Chris","meta_description":"Estranged parents are grieving too. But many stop talking about it because every conversation starts to feel dangerous. In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1639,"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/why-estranged-parents-stop-talking-about-their-grief/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/why-estranged-parents-stop-talking-about-their-grief.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}