#167 - Dr. Sherrie Campbell: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family - Rebuild your HOME - Heal from Family Trauma

Sherrie Campbell, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping healthy people cut ties with toxic family members. She is a nationally recognized expert on family estrangement, an inspirational speaker, a social media influencer, and author of many books on the theme of toxic and abusive family and how to heal while navigating those biological relationships. In this episode of Therapeutic Astrology Podcast, we tap deeply into toxic family dynamics, emotional abuse, boundaries, family estrangement and healing of it!

Our conversation centers especially around Dr. Sherries latest published book, "You Are Home: Heal from Family Trauma, Establish Boundaries, and Find a Place of Peace and Safety" from 2026. Sherrie speaks not only as a psychologist, but as a survivor who has lived what she writes about! She describes her own journey of breaking free from a toxic family system, "turning predators into purpose," healing out loud, and moving toward redemption rather than revenge and in the book she gives a plan of how to rebuild yourself as your own home after emotionally abuse.

TAP in as we go into topics such has:

• Family estrangement and why going no contact still challenges such a powerful cultural taboo

• Why severing ties with family is rarely a sudden decision, but often the end of a very long history of trying, hoping and being hurt again

• Therapists can support clients exploring estrangement without imposing their own beliefs and judgements about family

• THE WHY of toxic parenting -why they  behave as they do don't matter

• Closure, maladaptive guilt, gaslighting and boundaries

• The central metaphor in the book, is that you are your own house! your own structure that belong to you

• We go through the floors, beginning with the basement and our "monsters"

• I also ask Sherrie about the term "the bottom will fall out"

• Boundaries as different levels of access: the porch, the yard, the fence and, when necessary, no contact