I Hate You. What's For Dinner?

On I Hate You. What's For Dinner? we explore whether childhood explains everything. We'll ask our biggest questions about love and hate, rage and fear, and the awesome and mundane that all get smushed together when we're growing up. Tune in to make better sense of childhood, parenthood, and life in general.

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  Episode #17

  Ep 17 - Healthy Disappointment: What It Is and Why It Matters

  Aug 20, 20261h 3m

  At its most distilled, disappointment is just noticing a negative difference between what we expected and what actually happened. It’s a moment for recalibrating our expectations and learning from an experience. Of course, we throw a lot of other feelings and experiences into the mix along with that gap, and that’s especially true when expectation and reality involves our kids. In this episode, we theorize about the purpose of disappointment, how it gets twisted up with how we were parented, and how that in turn affects how we raise our kids. We talk about shame versus disappointment, the paradox of controlling what you can while knowing you have very little control, and how to acknowledge our disappointment while maintaining an open attitude with our kids. Listen to the full episode to hear: How disappointment often brings up shame, helplessness, anger, and anxiety directed at yourself and your kid The often tricky relationship between performance and the right to be loved How healthy disappointment recognizes the varied factors at play and releases excessive illusions of control over a situation Psychoanalytic and evolutionary perspectives on why we feel disappointment How parents can approach disappointment with more curiosity and less projection Learn more about I Hate You. What’s For Dinner? Learn more about Gillian Boudreau, PhD.: Website Instagram @clearconnectionpsychology Learn more about Rob Galligan, PhD.: Instagram @dr.robert.galligan Resources: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self , Alice Miller Ep 06 - Trickle Up!: Ron Williams On Purpose, Legacy, And Spreading Abundance

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  Episode #16

  Ep 16 - Healing in Real Time: Lucy Bichsel on Bringing Parents Into the Room

  Aug 6, 20261h 3m

  There are deep biases embedded in the literature and therapist training for how therapy is supposed to be done. Some of those norms have evolved and some of the rules still feel very rigid. Old school rules say that an adult who is working on issues from their childhood might talk about their mother every week for five years, but a therapist would never suggest the client bring their mom to a session. But if both the adult child and parent are willing, why couldn’t we do things differently? Today we’re talking with clinical psychologist Lucy Bichsel, who has been doing some unorthodox and very interesting work in her practice to help people make sense of some of their longest-held wounds. We dive into how Lucy expands the frame of individual adult therapy to allow parents and other important people into the room, potential pitfalls and opportunities for profound healing, and –– for anybody struggling with their relationship with a parent –– some of the patterns and dynamics we see pop up again and again for our clients. Listen to the full episode to hear: How bringing an adult child and parent together shifts the enactment that happens between therapist and client to the original relationship What Lucy learned the hard way about her role as a secure base for both her individual patient and their family member Why becoming a parent is often a catalyst for people to rethink their relationships with their parents Why reinterpreting the past isn’t necessarily the goal and how responsiveness in the here and now creates healing How Lucy approaches working with families when intentions are good but defenses are high How generational differences and caretaking for aging parents can create friction in child-parent relationships Learn more about Lucy Bichsel PhD: Website Learn more about I Hate You. What’s For Dinner? Learn more about Gillian Boudreau, PhD.: Website Instagram @clearconnectionpsychology Learn more about Rob Galligan, PhD.: Instagram @dr.robert.galligan Resources: Calling Dad - SNL Carl Rogers

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  Episode #15

  Ep 15 - Grief, Relief, and Time to Reflect: The Gift of Endings

  Jul 16, 202655 min

  June is a time of transition for a lot of families. The end of the school year, graduations from one phase of schooling to the next –– endings and beginnings have a way of surfacing the feels. And no one likes to process endings more than psychoanalysts. So as we’re at the end of the school year, and Rob has a child who just graduated high school — how?! –– we decided to spend some time today talking about endings. Rob shares some wisdom from his son’s head of school, Gillian talks about navigating change for kids and adults in a household, and we break down how the John Denver/Peter, Paul, & Mary classic “Leaving on a Jet Plane” encapsulates the vulnerabilities and fantasies of saying goodbye. Listen to the full episode to hear: The way so much of parenting becomes maintenance and banality, interspersed with moments of magic How the wider community begins to play a bigger developmental role in the transition from little kid to big kid Navigating adult transitional phases and relationships alongside your kiddos growing How “Leaving on a Jet Plane” taps into the grief, love, and vulnerability of goodbyes of all kinds How a child leaving the nest changes the center of gravity for the rest of the family The relatively unsung genius of 38 Special Learn more about I Hate You. What’s For Dinner? Learn more about Gillian Boudreau, PhD.: Website Instagram @clearconnectionpsychology Learn more about Rob Galligan, PhD.: Instagram @dr.robert.galligan Resources: Ep 03 - “I’m Doing The Song!” Ash Diggs On Cat’s In The Cradle, Comedy, And Family Ep 08 - Keeping It Authentic (And Surprising): Dr. Matt Morrison On Raising Kids And Therapists Harry Stack Sullivan Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul, & Mary Ep 09 - Fear, Resistance, And Flow: Paula Tursi On Letting Parenting Happen Hold On Loosely - 38 Special Ep 11 - Toward What Matters: Sarah Markowitz On CBT, Values, And Choice

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  Episode #14

  Ep 14 - The Suicide Shroud: Dr. Alexis Tomarken on Silence, Blame, and Survival

  Jul 2, 20261h 11m

  In our society, we’re not good at openly talking about death. We’re even worse at speaking openly about death by suicide. The silence that so often accompanies suicide–what our guest calls “the shroud of suicide”–creates additional burdens for surviving family members, especially women who survive their spouses. The expectation to shield others from the full weight of the death, to even erase the facts of the experience, is an enormous pressure that has long-term consequences across generations. Today, we’re in conversation with our former classmate, Dr. Alexis Tomarken, talk about two of her papers that discuss intergenerational trauma and the heavy burden of our collective discomfort with suicide. Alexis movingly weaves together psychoanalytic theory, her work as a therapist, and personal experience to show that putting words to life’s most difficult experiences is not only vital to personal integration, but impacts future generations as well. Listen to the full episode to hear: How our society treats suicide as crime, blames surviving women, and actually increases risk Why open discussion and processing is more effective at the prevention of “suicide contagion” than hiding from it Why the goal, especially for a surviving parent, is to keep the door open to communication with children, not to seek resolution How therapists’ and clients’ lived experiences inevitably interact, even without therapist disclosure How the blame and shame placed on women survivors is emblematic of gendered expectations of healing and caretaking Learn more about Dr. Alexis Tomarken: Website Connect on LinkedIn Learn more about I Hate You. What’s For Dinner? Learn more about Gillian Boudreau, PhD.: Website Instagram @clearconnectionpsychology Learn more about Rob Galligan, PhD.: Instagram @dr.robert.galligan Resources: Can You Hear Me? Errands and Repair in the Analytic Identity The Shroud of Suicide: Misogyny, Abjection, and Transgenerational Trauma A Last-Minute Breakthrough, Muriel Dimen | The New York Times The Argonauts , Maggie Nelson Dr. Dan Siegel Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP How It Feels When a Parent Dies , Jill Krementz Thomas Ogden

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  Episode #13

  Ep 13 - As Always, Start with Yourself: Kirk Martin on Calmer Parenting

  Jun 18, 20261h 7m

  Everyone struggles sometimes when their kids have strong opinions or feelings and they need them to just do the thing already. And when frustrations are high, it can be easy to slip into the kind of old-school parenting a lot of us were raised with and that we might be trying not to replicate. Our guest today, Kirk Martin, host of the Calm Parenting Podcast, knows those struggles intimately. In our conversation, he shares his journey with his son, Casey, and how he came to realize that he needed to throw out the old-school parenting playbook and change his whole way of thinking about autonomy, respect, and collaboration with his child. We talk about why clinging to parental autonomy isn’t actually useful when you’re in a power struggle with your kid and what parents who might be at their wits’ end can do to shift those dynamics in a positive direction. Listen to the full episode to hear: How Kirk’s own oppositional tendencies gave him insight into the feelings and fears underneath the power struggles Strategies for giving kids autonomy while maintaining boundaries and guardrails Why parents have to manage their feelings of embarrassment or shame when their kids don’t do things the “right” way Reframing disrespect and attitude as information that something’s up and an opportunity to connect Normalizing that things will go wrong and allowing yourself compassion Why Kirk encourages parents, and especially dads, to problem-solve with their kids like they would with their coworkers Learn more about Kirk Martin: Celebrate Calm Calm Parenting Podcast Instagram: @calmparentingpodcast Learn more about I Hate You. What’s For Dinner? Learn more about Gillian Boudreau, PhD.: Website Instagram @clearconnectionpsychology Learn more about Rob Galligan, PhD.: Instagram @dr.robert.galligan

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