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Latchkey Urchins & Friends

Alison Cebulla, Anne Sherry

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Healing trauma with humor. There's a nurturance void when we experience childhood emotional neglect. Anne is a therapist. Alison works in child wellness and trauma education. They look at the personal, interpersonal, and societal forms of neglect—the whole interconnected ecology of neglect. They often ask, "Why can't we care?" This podcast seeks to end the stigma of talking about mental health, trauma, and neglect while providing some resources for healing and growth. Topics: childhood emoti ...
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison reflect on all the ways they've grown as a result of committing to this podcast. It's filled with lots of love and gratitude! Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh Collins. Song "One Cloud is Lonely" by Próxima Parada. Cover ar…
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Send us a Text Message. Struggle Party episodes are a change for Alison and Anne to share what they’re reading, watching, or listening to. They each share one struggle and how they used tools to get through it. Topics: Charlotte Kasl's books Resonance Summit with Sarah Peyton Travel gets harder with age Getting comfortable with free time Dating/rel…
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Send us a Text Message. Elizabeth Gillette is back for a Part II discussion on insecure attachment and how to repair ruptures or conflicts. Elizabeth Gillette teaches courses that help people feel grounded, healthy, and whole in their relationships—because how you experience relationships impacts everything else. She is an attachment specialist, au…
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Send us a Text Message. Elizabeth Gillette teaches courses that help people feel grounded, healthy, and whole in their relationships—because how you experience relationships impacts everything else. She is an attachment specialist, author, therapist, mother, and partner, and she lives for seeing people changing their relational patterns, experienci…
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Send us a Text Message. Struggle Parties are a change for Anne and Alison to share a struggle their going through and tools to get through. They also share what they're reading, watching, or listening to right now that they recommend. Right now Anne and Alison are enjoying: Tara Swart's The Source Thomas Merton Carl Jung The New Look Follow us on I…
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Send us a Text Message. Sharon Hirsch serves as the President and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina, where she leads a team that focuses on making prevention a priority for NC and building capacity for communities to have the knowledge, support, and resources to prevent child abuse and neglect. She has more than 35 years’ experience in nonp…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Joe and Mendy McNulty, a husband and wife who are both former Pastors, about their lives growing up in the Church of the Nazarene, a fundamentalist Christian faith. They share how they left the church after years of working as head Pastor and children's Pastor respectively, and found new, alternative ways to hel…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Karla Amanda Brown about her journey in becoming a therapist and why group therapy is so important for healing. Karla Amanda Brown is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider, Level 2 Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapist, and the Founder/CEO of Soul C…
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Send us a Text Message. Alison's long-time friend Simón Lowrie joins the pod to talk about his experience growing up homeschooled with one of his brothers while their older brother was a child prodigy. We discuss both the merits and shortcomings of deciding to homeschool kids. It can be a refuge for kids who don't fit into public schools but it can…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison share: what they're reading, watching, or listening to right now and their cultural reflections a struggle they're each going through and tools they're using to grow and get through it Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh Coll…
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Send us a Text Message. We got 5 listener-submitted stories about Latchkey, awkward, painful, neglectful, or loving family holiday stories—some funny, some sentimental. Join hosts Anne and Alison with guest cohost Kyle Kimball, refugee lawyer, and our guest from Season 2's popular episode: When Gifted Kids Wake Up to Their Trauma. Follow us on Inst…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Darcia Narvaez, co-author of the book The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, is Fellow of American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison share what they're currently reading, watching, and listening to. They each share one thing they've been struggling with lately and how they've gotten through. Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh Collins. Song "One Cloud is L…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Kevin Adler about his new book, out today, When We Walk: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America. Kevin F. Adler is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the author of the new book, When We Walk By, a must-read guide for ending homelessness in Americ…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Stephanie Sellers, PhD about her book Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing. Family mobbing is a group act of aggression that targets a family member. It can be typified by a single act of violence or a pattern of abuse over years. Whether isolated or long-term, mobbing enforces the family's domination and contr…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk with Geanne Meta, author of Parenting Well After Childhood Abuse, Be a Great Parent Even if Yours Were Crap. Geanne (pronounced Ge-Anne) is a mom, sister, wife, grandmom, friend, animal rescuer, good cook - and also, a childhood sexual abuse survivor who isn’t afraid to talk about it. She has a passion f…
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Send us a Text Message. We're back for Season 3! We start this season off by speaking with Heidi Andersen, body-centered psychotherapist about why trauma healing has to happen in the body, not just the mind. Heidi Andersen is the founder of Reclaiming Beauty. "I believe embodiment heals. I'm here to support you in healing your relationship with foo…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison look back at moments from Season 2 and share how they've grown from the teachings of their wise guests. Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh Collins. Song "One Cloud is Lonely" by Próxima Parada. Cover art by Claire Dierksen.…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Caleb Nichols about his experience growing up with many adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how he has turned those experiences into art through his writing and music. Caleb Nichols is a queer poet and musician from California. His chapbook of poems "TEEMS///\\\RECEDES" was called "a gorgeous abundance" by …
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk to relationship expert Jayson Gaddis on his path to healing his childhood wounds through the teachings of his romantic relationships. He shares the moment he stopped viewing himself as the victim in his failed relationships and started to take ownership of his life and responsibility for his growth. He's…
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Send us a Text Message. Bonus episode! Anne and Alison share: A struggle party (something we're struggling with) A glimmer (moment of joy and connection) What we're currently reading, watching, and listening to that we recommend Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh …
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk with transformational life coach, Christina Berkley about her childhood as a latchkey kid, Canadian immigrant from Romania, her journey healing her own trauma, and how that lead her to work as a coach. Trance and plant medicine have been foundational to her healing and practice. Working with Christina as…
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Send us a Text Message. This week we discuss dysfunctional family roles and dynamics including scapegoat, hero, golden child, caretaker, identified patient, rebel, and more. Anne and Caroline share their stories of growing up Gen X with wild older brothers who grew up to have real mental health struggles. Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview author and speaker Tabitha A. Scott about her healing journey away from corporate burnout culture. She documents her journey in the award-winning book, Trust Your Animal Instincts. Tabitha is an award-winning author and speaker who helps inspire action, ignite change, and provide connection, direction, and power…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview author and coach Mary Giuliani about her new book, It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD. Mary Giuliani is in long-term recovery from alcohol, drugs, food addiction, and severe obesity. She has a 25-year background as a Master Certified Coach, is a keynote speaker, and is the au…
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Send us a Text Message. We talk about the fact that many children considered "gifted" were either neurodivergent and/or coping with trauma or C-PTSD. We talk about how American culture neglects kids and families and that we now live in the dystopian hellscape that 80s action movies predicted. Kyle Kimball is a law student at Vrije Universiteit Amst…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Dr. Jamie Marich about her new book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life (2023). We talk about how dissociation is a very natural coping strategy for a stressful or traumatic childhood. She's helping define and normalize the term "dissociate…
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Send us a Text Message. We start the year off by talking about sobriety, toxic intensity, cycles of trauma and addiction, and making the choice to turn around family trauma by healing at all costs. Carey Smith Sipp is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at PACEs Connection and a disrupter of multi-generational cycles of trauma and addiction. PAC…
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Send us a Text Message. Our favorite cohosts are back: Tyler Tamai, RN, BSN, and Kevin Annonymous, RN, a psychiatric nurse. They join us in hearing and reacting to listener-submitted stories about the hilarious, the awkward, and the tragic–all the moments that make the holidays a stressful, joyful, and potentially traumatic time of year. Tune in to…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk with Nivida Chandra about parentification. She is the author of the viral Aeon piece, Parentification: When parents cast a child into the role of mediator, friend and carer, the wounds are profound. But recovery is possible. We talk about feeling like unemotional sociopaths, breaking out of our urchin sh…
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Send us a Text Message. Chances are you've seen Laura Danger chat about some hard-hitting topics: domestic labor is labor, weaponized incompetence, naming the issues, using data to point to injustices, and community care. Laura has 17.5 million likes on her videos on TikTok—and there's a reason why! Laura, through her work as a certified Fair Play …
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Harriet Shearsmith, author, podcast, and award-winning UK blogger on motherhood, self-love, estrangement, and fashion. We were inspired to interview Harriet after reading and seeing the popularity of Jennette McCurdy's book I'm Glad My Mom Died. Harriet shares why she thinks Jennette's story is resonating with s…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison check-in: what's fun right now (spoiler alert: not much) what we're reading, watching, and listening to Struggle Party: what we're struggling with right now Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh Collins. Song "One Cloud is Lone…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison interview Cynthia Perez, LCSW, a Chicana therapist, author, public speaker, and Inner Child Hype Woman. We learn how she came to do this work of hyping up our inner child, how to do the work, and why acknowledging our inner child is so important (the pain is not too great! We can do it!). We discuss social ju…
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Send us a Text Message. Our World Mental Health Day episode is a conversation with Philip Butler, Ph.D., about the future of mental health care: one that puts healing in each person's own hands. We talk about the barriers to accessing healing and mental health care, especially for Black people. Dr. Butler's solution is to put the Internal Family Sy…
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Send us a Text Message. We interview Susan Linn about her new book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children. It turns out we've all been indoctrinated from a young age to value buying things due to the United States' lax child protection policies for advertising. Susan Linn is a psychologist, award-winning ventrilo…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Latchkey Urchins & Friends podcast! Hosted by Alison Cebulla, who works in child trauma prevention, and Anne Sherry, therapist. Our website. Audio mastered by Josh Collins. "One Cloud is Lonely" theme song by Próxima Parada. Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends we…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison look back on Season 1 of Latchkey Urchins & Friends. Follow us on Instagram. Check out our bonus YouTube content. Latchkey Urchins & Friends website. Audio mastering by Josh Collins. Song "One Cloud is Lonely" by Próxima Parada. Cover art by Claire Dierksen.By Alison Cebulla, Anne Sherry
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Send us a Text Message. We talk with the hosts of The Neurodivergent Woman podcast, Dr. Michelle Livock and Monique Mitchelson. What is neurodivergence? How the needs of neurodivergent children can be neglected and the long-term impacts. As always we end with the "Feelings Wheel Game" where we practice naming feelings and feeling them in our bodies…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk with Kay Gardner, LCPC about her work helping people hand back their legacy burdens to their ancestors where they belong. Not all of the trauma we carry around is ours to carry. Learn about Kay's healing work helping us unburden our trauma. Kay Gardner has over 40 years of clinical experience and 30 year…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk with Eric Atcheson, ordained pastor in the Christian Church about Millennial faith, social justice, and finding connection through spirituality. We learn about his experience growing up in Kansas with attorney parents and how this shaped his inclusive worldview, which he brings to his ministry. This epis…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison interview Adrian Alexander and Juleus Ghunta, community managers of the ACEs Caribbean Community, raising awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and promoting Protective Factors, Positive Experiences, Hope, and Resilience throughout the Caribbean. They are working to inform and transform their reg…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison interview Jon Claytor about his new book, Take the Long Way Home, a story of words and drawings. "In Take the Long Way Home, Claytor explores alcoholism, love, and family through heart-rending vignettes and expressive linework. This is the story of a man who unpacks a difficult past, only to discover that eve…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison interviewed Ariana Vargas about STIGMA App and documentary films about overcoming childhood trauma and sharing mental health struggles. STIGMA App normalizes conversations about mental health, one story at a time. Ariana Vargas is a creative director, researcher, and brand strategist who is building a new kin…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison talk with Josh Collins, a California-raised guitarist and songwriter currently based in Idaho. Josh has been working behind the scenes on Latchkey Urchins & Friends as our audio engineer since Ep5. We learn about the chaotic home life he endured in childhood and how he found refuge in music. Josh plays with t…
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Send us a Text Message. Anne and Alison share their personal journeys seeking mental health treatment from therapists and psychiatrists. They share what they looked for in a therapist, why they sought treatment, and what their outcomes were. They share how to find a therapist and when to seek one. They also share what you can get out of therapy as …
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Send us a Text Message. We welcome back beloved past guest Tamara Hanna, a clinical psychologist based in Asheville, NC (last heard in Ep8). Tamara has been inspired recently by the work of Mia Birdsong’s How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community. She shares how to show up for our family, friends, and community, which boundaries …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Anne and Alison talk to Leslie Petruk, LPCS, NCC, BCC, Charlotte, NC-based therapist and Founder and Director of The Stone Center For Counseling & Leadership. We learn about Leslie's journey to discovering her own ADHD after serving this population professionally for years, her inner healing work for the sak…
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Send us a Text Message. This week Anne and Alison talk with Evan Cudworth, The World's 1st Party Coach, about his mission to help people party with intention. We hear his personal story about growing up in small-town, Christian, Illinois and then joining a fraternity in college and coming out as gay. We hear about the careers he tried before realiz…
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Send us a Text Message. This week Anne and Alison talk with IFS therapist Madeleine Warren about the parentified child. We interview Madeleine Warren, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) about parentified children. This is a relationship children have with their parents in which the child takes on the parent’s role of emotional caretaking…
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