Episode 1: Parents
Episode 1
Topic: Parents
Featured Guest: Kathleen Smith
Release Date: July 8, 2025
Dr. Bowen Quote Referenced: “For many years I have been on the thesis that a person can neither “hate” nor “over-revere” a parent if they really know their parents… I insist that if you really get to know a parent as a person instead of an “angel” or a “devil,” then you cannot either hate or sanctify them…. How can you really “hate” someone you’ve never really known? Do you know what your mother was going through at the time you were born? Well why in the world didn’t you ever ask or try to find out? Do you make it a policy of “hating” people without really knowing facts?”
Source: Letter from Dr. Bowen to his family on May 11, 1968