
Welcome to the Soberly Blended “Media, Books, and Podcasts” section, a handpicked selection of literature, podcasts, and media that speaks to the unique challenges of navigating co-parenting, blended families, sobriety, and generational trauma. This space is designed to provide you with insightful stories, expert advice, and practical tools that can inspire healing, foster growth, and support you in your personal journey. Whether you’re looking for guidance, relatable experiences, or just a bit of encouragement, these resources are here to help you move forward with strength and clarity.
Featured in the Resilience Community
May 2025 Feature- Home of the American Circus by Allison Larkin

Set in the birthplace of the American circus, this deeply moving novel is an exploration of broken families, the weight of the past, and the complicated journey of finding home.
April 2025 Feature- Educated by Tara Westover

One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
March 2025 Feature – What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life.
Books and Literature
Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives – Emma Katz, PhD.

Emma is among the world’s leading academic experts on how coercive control harms children and mother-child relationships, and how these harms can be overcome.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel Van Der Kolk

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. He uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
Untamed – Glennon Doyle (The #1 New York Times Seller)

In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.
Divorcing a Narcissist – One Mom’s Battle – Tina Swithin (OMB)

This book provides validation and strategies for anyone dealing with narcissistic abuse in family dynamics, offering hope and a roadmap to create healthier, more peaceful post-divorce lives.
Moms Moving On – Michelle Dempsey-Multack

Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this “straightforward” (Ilene S. Cohen, PhD, award-winning author of When It’s Never About You), empowering guide to divorce for moms.
Three Minutes for Mom – Erin Morrison, The Conscious Mom

Real motherhood support for real mothers. Uplift and support yourself each day in three minutes or less with these short, easy-to-use entries designed to give you the motivation you need to feel empowered in motherhood.
Podcasts
Navigating Narcissism Podcast

In this groundbreaking series, clinical psychologist and world’s leading expert on narcissism, Dr. Ramani Durvasula, talks to survivors and experts to help millions left reeling from narcissistic abuse. The powerful, transformative conversations on this podcast break down classic patterns and help unpack feelings.
A Little Bit Culty Podcast

As whistleblowers documented in the critically-acclaimed HBO series “The Vow,” Sarah and Nippy have a lot to say about their experience, and burning questions to ask people with similar stories. They’re here to help people understand, heal from, and avoid abusive situations one little red flag at a time. Listen in as they share their stories, have frank and unscripted conversations with other survivors and cult experts, and do a deep dive on how devotion can turn to dysfunction.
Radical Stepmom Podcast

A safe space to talk about the good, bad and really ugly moments about raising a child you didn’t create.
The Calling Home Podcast

Inspired by the overwhelming need for a supportive community, she created Calling Home—the first online community dedicated to family cyclebreakers. Whitney envisioned a safe space where adults could break free from generational dysfunction and work towards healthier family relationships.
It’s All Your Fault Podcast

Each week, Bill Eddy and Megan Hunter will be exploring the five types of people who can ruin your life — people with high conflict personalities — and how they weave themselves into our lives in romance, at work, next door, at school, places of worship, and just about everywhere, causing chaos, exhaustion, and dread for everyone else.
On Purpose Podcast

Through thought-provoking conversations and personal reflections, Jay helps us understand how to take control of our well-being and cultivate emotional resilience.
Academic Articles, Journals and Studies
The Trauma and Mental Health Impacts of Coercive Control: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Susanne Lohmann, Sean Cowlishaw, Luke Ney, Meaghan O’Donnell, and Kim Felmingham. January 25, 2024.
Coercive Control in Intimate Partner Violence: Relationship with Women’s Experience of Violence, Use of Violence, and Danger
Kristie A. Thomas, Paul Crits-Christoph, Shannon N. Ogden, Karin V. Rhodes. September 2018.
Giving Voice to the Silence of Family Estrangement: Comparing Reasons of Estranged Parents and Adult Children in a Nonmatched Sample
Kristin Carr, Amanda Holman, Jody Koenig Kellas and Jenna Stephenson Abetz. April 2015.
Identifying and Remedying Non-Assaultive Domestic Violence in Family Law Cases
Maleaha L. Brown. October 11, 2024.
Post-Separation Abuse: A Literature Review Connecting Tactics to Harm
Kathryn J Spearman, Viola Vaughan-Eden, Jennifer L Hardesty, Jacquelyn Campbell. May 23, 2024.
Pathological Narcissism: An Analysis of Interpersonal Dysfunction Within Intimate Relationships
Nicholas J S Day, Michelle L Townsend, Brin F S Grenyer. August 16, 2022.
Vexatious Litigation in Family Law and Coercive Control: Ways to Improve Legal Remedies and Better Protect the Victims
Emma Fitch and Patricia Easteal. March 19, 2019.
How Domestically Abusive Men Continue to Harm Mother–Child Relationships Post-Separation
Emma Katz. March 15, 2025.
Coercive Control in the Courtroom: the Legal Abuse Scale (LAS)
Ellen R Gutowski and Lisa A Goodman. May 19, 2022.
The Psychological Impact on Moms Who Have Experienced DV When Navigating the Family Court System
Sage Wilde, Nicola Sheeran, Heather Douglas. July 4, 2023.
Coercive Control Legislation: Using the Tort System to Empower Survivors of Domestic Violence
Sarah M. Garrett. October 2023.