Cover art for Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief & Estrangement

Christina Workman

Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief & Estrangement

What Are You Protecting When Accountability Gets Too Close

Published
September 23, 2026
Duration
33:35
Summary source
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Last updated
Sep 24, 2026

Discusses health, mental, kids, family, parenting.

Summary

There is a sentence people hear before they hear anything else.Sometimes you say, “This hurt me,” and what they hear is, “You attacked me.”Sometimes you say, “I need you to understand the impact,” and what they hear is, “You’re blaming me for everything.”Sometimes accountability gets translated into attack before the real sentence ever has a chance to lan…

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Show notes

There is a sentence people hear before they hear anything else.Sometimes you say, “This hurt me,” and what they hear is, “You attacked me.”Sometimes you say, “I need you to understand the impact,” and what they hear is, “You’re blaming me for everything.”Sometimes accountability gets translated into attack before the real sentence ever has a chance to land.In this episode of Laugh Cry Scream, Chris Workman talks about what happens when accountability gets too close, why defensiveness rewrites th

Themes

  • health
  • mental
  • kids
  • family
  • parenting