Joshua Coleman

A youth mental health crisis, no practice at hard conversations because everything is text, and identity over family.

"This is the most surveilled generation in history, helicopter parents and phones, and many struggle to become independent," says Joshua Coleman, a psychologist who specializes in estrangement and led the Family Summit in Chicago.

At the same time, they face parents who are more anxious in an uncertain world.

"For some, estrangement is their first chance at adolescent rebellion," Coleman says.

And so I think the best way for parents to re-engage is to This idea is not original to me.

Joshua Coleman talks about this a lot.

Write an amends letter.

Write something down so that it's not a conversation.

So I'm saying that in a way of bless your heart and your situation.

And I don't know what, what is going on, but I did do a lot, a deep dive over the last couple of years, year or two on, there's a guy named Dr. Joshua Coleman, and he wrote a book called rules of estrangement, which is about, it's like adult children and becoming more estranged with their parents.

And, And it's really interesting because a lot of it is a lot of his work has been around the parent needing the kid to either validate the parent to say that, hey, you're the best.

I appreciate everything you did.

And I just like bringing awareness to that because if that is the case, it's okay.

And I want somebody to kind of own that.

But this Dr. Joshua Coleman, if you go look him up, his book, it was really good because it's almost like the parent.

I think about this often.

be interesting to see over the decades to come how this dynamic changes.

And I think we touched on it when Joshua Coleman was on the show and talked about sort of evolving toxicity of individualism and how that could certainly be some fuel for estrangement, but certainly also fuel for...

this sort of schism between sibling caregivers as they now need to return to try and provide some sort of care for their ailing parent or their declining parent.

Well, you know, there's been a lot of attention to the parent-child relationship and the strains on those connections, but far less attention to siblings.