31 Best Dysfunctional Family Podcasts

1. Adult Child

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Adult Child dives deep into the lasting effects of growing up in dysfunctional families—unpacking complex and relational trauma, codependency, toxic shame, and addiction patterns with raw vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity. Hosted by Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, each episode shares unfiltered insights, expert conversations, and practical tools to heal your nervous system and break free from the cycles that hold you back...MORE Host Andrea Ashley
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Amber Trejo, Dr. Peter Salerno +6 more
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2. Tuesday Toolbox ACA

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Stories of recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Recorded at the ACA Tuesday Toolbox meeting of ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Email us at TuesdayToolboxACA(at)Gmail.com.MORE Producer/Network Tuesday Toolbox ACA
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 507 Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Since Aug 2017 Get Email Contact

3. Sherapy Sessions: Cutting Toxic Family Ties

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Toxic family is real. Toxic parents are real. Smear campaigns are real. Toxic in-laws are real. You are not alone. On this podcast, you have a voice.On this podcast, Dr. Sherrie Campbell will help you learn more about your family dynamics, unconscious patterns that drive toxic human behavior, and ways to deal with your trauma. And most importantly, you will embark on a journey that will help you know yourself and love yourself more. Dr. Sherrie is a nationally recognized expert clinical psychologist with over 25 years of clinical training and experience...MORE Host Dr. Sherrie Campbell
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Dr. Jaime Zuckerman, Lauren Smallcomb +4 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 717Facebook 189.6KTwitter 3.3KInstagram 161.3K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. You're Not Crazy: A Podcast for Cycle Breakers with Toxic Parents

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Psychotherapist and Coach, Torie Wiksell, is no stranger to talking about challenging and dysfunctional family dynamics. In addition to specializing in working with the adult children of parents with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders as both a therapist and coach, Torie grew up with a mother who had an unmanaged personality disorder.Torie has spent a significant portion of her 12 year career as a therapist working with clients with personality disorders, their partners, and family members, and brings a unique and relatable perspective to navigating these complicated relations..MORE Host Torie Wiksell
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 161 Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

5. ACA Adult Children Voices Across America Speaker Meeting

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Fellow Travelers of ACA (Adult-Children of Alcoholics and other Dysfunctional Families) share what it was like growing up, what led them to ACA recovery, and how they use the ACA 12 Steps and tools of the ACA program to guide their life today.MORE Producer/Network adultchildrenvoicesacrossamerica
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 107 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. Unfollowing Mum

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Unfollowing Mum : Break Unhealthy habits and be the parent you wish you'd had is available for preorder NOW!A therapist recommended podcast for cycle breakers by someone who has lived the experience. Host Harriet Shearsmith knows first hand how challenging it can be to navigate estrangement, toxic family and dysfunctional dynamics in a digital age where setting boundaries and protecting your peace is harder than ever. In 2023 we're unfollowing mum...MORE Host Harriet Shearsmith
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Shelley Bradley-Scholey
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 75Facebook 16.8KTwitter 18.6KInstagram 118.7K Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Beyond Survival - The Therapy Podcast with Katie McKenna

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This Podcast is for anyone who grew up up in a dysfunctional or narcissistic family system and now finds themselves stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, anxiety or unhealthy relationships.Each episode offers real-world insight into trauma recovery, relationships, boundaries, nervous system healing and reconnecting to your true self. Whether your just starting your healing journey or looking to deepen it, you're welcome here - just as you are MORE Host Katie McKenn
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Katie McKenna, Dr. Rachna Buxani +1 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 81 Avg Length 57 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Character Outs

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A podcast on a mission to normalize going (and staying) no contact with toxic family. You have read the books, set boundaries, cried for change, and had no choice but to preserve your peace and the peace of your children by going no contact with your toxic family. Going no contact is not a trend, it does not mean you gave up and it does not mean you are a villain. It is a brave decision to realize your worth and stop emotional abuse, even though they are family. This podcast is for anyone who has felt like a villain but refuses to return to more shit because you know, 'It's your family!!'MORE Host Terri L.
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 61Instagram 48.5K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. ACA Tuesday Zoombox

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Stories of recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Recorded at the online ACA Tuesday Zoombox meeting and based on the ACA Tuesday Toolbox meeting in Brooklyn, NY. Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families (ACA) is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of people who meet to share our experience of growing up in an environment where abuse, neglect, and trauma infected us. This affects us today and influences how we deal with all aspects of our lives. We'd love to hear from you - write to us at ****@gmail.comMORE Producer/Network ACA Tuesday Zoombox
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 43 Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

10. The UnMothered Podcast

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When life gives you a toxic mother, what do you do? You listen, learn, and changeyour direction! I'm Phylis Mantelli, author of the book 'UnMothered: Life With A MomWho Couldn't Love Me.' This podcast is a place for mentoring and encouragement aswe navigate the complexities of toxic parent relationships. Join me as I share myjourney and invite God-filled guests to discuss emotional healing, overcomingchildhood trauma, and personal growth. Together, we'll explore new thoughts andpatterns to transform our lives...MORE Host Phylis Mantelli
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 28 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

11. Adult Child of Dysfunction

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'Child of Dysfunction' is your guide into the world of resilience and healing. Hosted by Tammy Vincent, the adult child of two alcoholic parents, this podcast delves deep into the experiences of growing up in a chaotic and dysfunctional environment, facing childhood neglect, abuse, and trauma while overcoming adversity.With personal insights and expert interviews, we explore the challenges and triumphs of adults who grew up in these toxic environments, and healed...MORE Host Tammy Vincent
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Barbra Banner, Dr. Kate Lund +9 more
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12. Canaries in the Coal Mine

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Welcome to Canaries in the Coal Mine — a podcast for people who notice deeply, tell the truth, and are breaking patterns they didn't choose. I'm Shannon — a former party girl turned cycle-breaker, trauma survivor, boundary-setter, and fellow feel-everything human. I know what it's like to grow up reading the room, managing emotions that weren't yours, and learning to doubt your own instincts just to stay connected...MORE Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

13. How To Be a Terrible Daughter

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Wondering how to be a terrible daughter? Listen as Elizabeth Malamed and Megan Caper, mental health professionals who also happen to be cousins, discuss growing up in toxic families, surviving narcissistic abuse, and moving forward after trauma. The How To Be a Terrible Daughter podcast is a place to find community, put words to your experience, and laugh at the dark stuff. We'll share our stories from our own childhoods, make mental health concepts easy to understand, and interview intriguing guests along the way...MORE Producer/Network Elizabeth Malamed and Megan Caper
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 24 Avg Length 57 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

14. The Community Well

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The Community Well Podcast is a space for first-generation cycle breakers who say, 'it ends with me.' If you grew up in a toxic/dysfunctional home, without guidance, without examples of healthy families, now feel the weight of building differently, this podcast is for you. We'll equip you with the spiritual truth & practical tools you need to heal, grow, & thrive as individuals, couples, and families. Because the journey isn't meant to be walked alone. Together, we'll learn how to break cycles, build Kingdom families, and leave a legacy that glorifies God.MORE Producer/Network Ana Tibisay Ayobiojo
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 18 Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. Ronni and Jennie: Conversations on Recovery from Childhood Trauma and Abuse

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Ronni and Jennie are sisters who were not supposed to be friends. They grew up in a home with addiction, abuse, and untreated mental illness, which generated dysfunctional dynamics that often pitted them against each other. Miraculously, they came together in adulthood to help each other heal. Now, drawing on their personal and professional experiences, they are telling their story to help others recover from childhood trauma and abuse, and to help them mend their own sibling relationships. They invite you to join them in this healing conversation...MORE Hosts Ronni Tichenor, Jennie Weaver
Producer/Network Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

16. Unfilteredd: Narcissistic Families

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Welcome to Unfilteredd: Narcissistic Families, hosted by Juliana Akin. On this podcast, we interview licensed mental health professionals about narcissistic families.
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

17. Until It Ran Into Me

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It ran in my family until it ran into me Hello! My name is Brittany. I'm a 32 year old from California. I launched Until It Ran Into Me on March 21st, 2025. I've always been passionate and fascinated about and by the things that ultimately make us who we are and the things we have to overcome to be our best selves. What we experience in our childhoods and the way it affects our adult selves. What lessons do we learn and put a stop to? What cycles do we repeat? We all have a story and every part of that story matters...MORE Producer/Network Brittany Byers
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18. The Unshaken Daughter

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The Unshaken Daughter is a trauma-informed podcast exploring CPTSD, dysfunctional family systems, identity reconstruction, and nervous system recovery.This show examines how early family environments shape what feels safe, what feels forbidden, and who we become in order to survive.Each episode blends psychological insight, lived experience, and structured education to help you:• Understand survival roles and family dynamics• Recognize the nervous system patterns behind anxiety, guilt, and hypervigilance• Navigate estrangement, betrayal, and identity collapse• Rebuild self-trust with..MORE Email ****@live.ca
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19. The Black Sheep Diaries

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Stories of family dysfunction, boundary-setters, and important stories they never wanted you to tell. 
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

20. Mother of All Trauma

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What if the hardest stories you've lived are the ones you need to tell?Mother of All Trauma is a podcast about what happens when the people who raised you also hurt you and how two cousins are breaking the cycle.Laura and Miranda open up about estrangement, mother wounds, and the complicated legacy of growing up with generational trauma.Raw. Honest. Unfiltered. This is what healing out loud sounds like.MORE Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

21. The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

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I'm Anna Runkle, also known as the Crappy Childhood Fairy, and I teach people to recognize and heal the symptoms of Childhood PTSD. Welcome to my podcast!I'm not a doctor or therapist; I know about childhood trauma because I lived it, and I discovered a radical approach to healing that focuses first on calming neurological dysregulation, which is common in people who grew up with abuse and neglect. In my podcasts, I teach about dysregulation how to know if you have it, what it can do to your body, your thinking and your relationships, and what to do to master re-regulation...MORE Host Anna Runkle
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 509 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

22. CALLING HOME with Whitney Goodman, LMFT

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Whitney Goodman is a licensed marriage and family therapist and author on a mission to help adult family members have better relationships. Each week, Whitney has conversations with influential guests and real people to help listeners find new ways of looking at old family problems. Calling Home is available every Tuesday and Thursday wherever you get your podcasts.MORE Host Whitney Goodman
Producer/Network Calling Home
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Whitney Goodman, Kate Gray
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 464 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

23. Family Disappeared

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Have you lost contact with your child? What about your parent, or grandparent, sibling, or any other family member? You might be experiencing estrangement, alienation, or erasure. All of these terms speak to the trauma and dysfunction that so many families face. A family is a complex living and breathing system. Each member plays a role in the family dynamic. When families carry generational trauma and/or experience new trauma, challenges, or dysfunction, this can result in a break in the family system. These reaction strategies are habitual and very often interwoven into every aspect of how our family interacts...MORE Producer/Network Lawrence Joss
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Dr. Rebecca Bailey
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 39 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

24. Heal from Family Estrangement | Scriptures, Biblical Healing, Estranged, Dysfunctional Family, Narci

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Are you walking through a family estrangement from your own mother, father or maybe even entire family? Have you tried pouring out your heart, from the depths of your soul, just to be left unheard time and time again? Have you spent years, maybe even your whole life, feeling unloved, unwanted and all alone even if your parents were right next to you? Do thoughts of 'Will I ever be enough?' or 'Do I even matter?' cross your mind? I want to start off by saying I'm so sorry you are walking through this...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 14 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

25. When the Bough Breaks

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When the Bough Breaks (WTBB) is a self-help, talk-therapy podcast for those who find themselves estranged from one or more family members. Guests call in the show to discuss the events that led up to their estrangement and share their experiences and resources.  Guests include psychologists, family counselors, life coaches, writers and more!    Alexis Arralynn, creator, producer and host of the show is one of the few podcasters willing to tackle this difficult and often painful topic of estrangement...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

26. Family Gems

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Family Gems is a podcast where comedians Subhah Agarwal (The Jim Jefferies Show) and Valerie Tosi (Conan) chat with guests about their wacky and dysfunctional families. Get ready to feel better about yours.MORE Hosts Valerie Tosi, Subhah Agarwal
Producer/Network Subhah Agarwal and Valerie Tosi
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 19Instagram 10.7K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

27. ? Diamond In The Rough?

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This show is about me being born in a dysfunctional family lack of love and support and how I can overcome it...
Host Kecia Davis
Producer/Network Mz. Pinnky Mukbang
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Avg Length 8 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

28. Tesa's Stories

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Dysfunctional family. In my oponion. Life, my life, autism. Domestic violance,relationships, sex and many more topics and stories. Motivational and inspirational. You dont want to miss it.
Host Theresa Collins
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29. Rooted Recovery Stories

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Rooted Recovery Stories is where unfiltered truth meets real healing. Host Patrick Custer sits down with celebrities and survivors to reveal what it really takes to break cycles, rebuild self-worth, and find joy after pain. If you've ever felt alone in your struggles, these stories will remind you: you're not broken—you're becoming. Listen in and discover the courage to heal, grow, and rise.MORE Host Patrick Custer
Producer/Network Promises Behavioral Health
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 19Facebook 19.4KInstagram 47.9K Avg Length 92 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

30. E-ville

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An irreverent podcast for those whom loved S-town; E-ville is an even more intriguing and twisted tale of a murder-death mystery of my only brother who recently died at 48 in Edwardsville, Illinois aka E-ville. So Funny, you will pee your pants, and so sad, even the toughest man will need a Kleenex. An intellectually sophisticated perspective on living and dying in Covid times—a deeply intimate, hilarious and vulnerable real life stories of a dysfunctional family with religious baggage. A real and raw sharing of wit and wisdom by the author of #itsamemeingfullife books...MORE Host Kimberley Bodenhamer Smith
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 3.4/5Apple Reviews 5Facebook 35 Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

31. Diesel Spirit Podcast

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Inspiration, truth, and fire. Roger Michael Morello grew up in a broken home, dysfunctional family, and without a father. With no college degree, battling drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and a devastating betrayal that would shake him to the core, he had many odds stacked against him in life. Nonetheless, today he is a successful real estate entrepreneur owning an operating a $7 million rental real estate portfolio he built from scratch. Diesel Spirit Podcast is a reflection of a mindset cultivated through challenge, self discovery, hardship, and represents real transformation.MORE Host Roger Michael Morello
Producer/Network Roger Morello
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 7Instagram 231 Avg Length 50 min Format Long form Get Email Contact