No Contact Isn’t Healing: What Estranged Adult Children Need to Know About Shame, Boundaries, and Blame

What really happens after you go no contact with a parent? In this raw and powerful episode of The Family Dropouts, Dorcy Pruter and Madi Welborne go deep into the emotional trenches of family estrangement, scapegoating, sibling dynamics, and the long shadow of unhealed generational trauma.

Together, they unpack why cutting contact doesn’t equal healing, how blame becomes a hiding place for shame, and what it really takes to reclaim your story when your parent—or your whole family—makes you the villain.

If you’ve ever been called “difficult,” “ungrateful,” or “too sensitive,” this episode is your homecoming. Learn how to move from survival mode to true self-leadership, how to hold the grief without collapsing into it, and why your box of darkness might just be the greatest gift you never asked for.

🔥 This is the episode estranged adult children didn’t know they needed.

Key topics:

·      No contact ≠ healing

·      Shame vs. guilt in family trauma

·      What to do when your siblings don’t understand

·      Reclaiming your narrative after being scapegoated

·      Why blame blocks accountability—and healing

·      The 4 phases: Protection, Re-education, Rehabilitation, Reintegration

·      Releasing the role of the villain or the martyr

·      Nervous system regulation and emotional freedom

·      That Mary Oliver quote that finally lands

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