In This Family
Nexus Family Healing
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About This Podcast
The podcast, In This Family, features honest and candid conversations with public figures and everyday people about mental health within families, highlighting the power of resilience and courage through those relationships. When one member of a family has a mental health issue, the whole family has a mental health issue; everybody is affected – children and adults. What happens in families can be crucially important in understanding one’s own struggles with mental health and the healing journey. Dr. Michelle K. Murray, CEO of Nexus Family Healing and licensed marriage and family therapist, hosts the program, which offers a variety of perspectives and raw experiences for the listener to relate and feel acknowledged and understood about personal mental health challenges and triumphs. In This Family is presented by Nexus Family Healing, a national nonprofit mental health organization that restores hope for thousands of children and families.
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Recent Episodes
Acclaimed Author Saeed Jones Was The Only Black Gay Buddhist in His Texas Town
Content Warning: This episode discusses violence, rape, and hate crimes. Long before he won the Kirkus and Pushcart Prizes for his memoir writing, before he started teaching creative writing at…
Severe Mental Illness, Homelessness, and A Close, Loving Family with David Ambroz
Content Warning: This episode discusses homelessness, child abuse, neglect, and sexual assault. David Ambroz does not remember a time before being homeless with his mom and two siblings in New York…
Jessica Guerrieri’s Novel Characters Are Familiar With Alcoholism. So Is Their Author.
Content Warning: This episode discusses substance abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and sexual assault. Book club members who knock back a few bottles of wine are in for some soul searching…
Adam Cayton-Holland Has a Career in Comedy and a Life With Tragedy
Content Warning: This episode discusses suicide, grief, depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Adam and Lydia weren’t just siblings, they were…
Best of In This Family: Loving Families and the Pain of Silence with Meg Kissinger
Content Warning: This episode discusses substance use, depression, anxiety, and death by suicide. Award-winning veteran journalist Meg Kissinger grew up as part of a close-knit family in a noisy and…
Best of In This Family: Dr. Joseph Lee, CEO of Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, on Addiction and Healing
Content Warning: This episode discusses addiction. As a young resident at Duke University, Joseph Lee saw the profound change that people were capable of when dealing with addiction. He witnessed…
Best of In This Family: How Comedian Gary Gulman Experienced Extreme Distress and Pulled Himself Back Up
Content Warning: This episode discusses depression, anxiety, hospitalization, and traumatic experiences. Gary Gulman has been making people laugh for many years as a top touring comedian and frequent…
Deborah Jackson Taffa on Bonds That Get Stronger and Bonds That Never Get Made
Content Warning: This episode discusses suicidal ideation and attempted suicide. Her mother was Latina and one of fifteen kids while her dad was Native American and one of ten kids. For the acclaimed…
Rebekah Taussig on What Disability and Ableism Mean and What They Don’t
Content Warning: this episode discusses depression and suicide. Childhood and adolescence can be tough for anyone. There’s so much to figure out. Author Rebekah Taussig (Sitting Pretty: The View…
Isaac Fitzgerald’s Family Story of Substance Use, Violence, Mental Illness, and, Ultimately, Love
Content Warning: This episode discusses suicide, self harm, substance abuse, and violence. You may have seen Isaac Fitzgerald in one of his frequent appearances on The Today Show, cheerfully sharing…
Ashley C. Ford on Making Sense of Her Mom, “The Mother”, and a Dad in Prison
Content Warning: This episode discusses child abuse and rape. Author Ashley C. Ford did not have it easy growing up. Her mom could be a lot of fun but could also be physically and verbally abusive…
TV’s Paul Scheer Never Fought With His Girlfriend. That Was a Red Flag.
Content Warning: This episode discusses childhood trauma, emotional abuse and physical abuse. Paul Scheer is known to audiences as an actor, a regular on the series The League and Black Monday, and…
Joel Kim Booster’s Parents Found His Diary And Everything Blew Apart
Content Warning: This episode discusses bipolar disorder, suicidal thoughts and self harm. Actor and writer Joel Kim Booster (K-Pop Demon Hunters, Loot, Fire Island) had a difficult time with the…
Frank Cobbe and His Mom Team Up to Unlock Both of Their Mental Health Mysteries
Content Warning: This episode discusses sexual abuse, bipolar II disorder, hypomania, autism, and psychosis. Frank is only 22 years old, still in college, but he has come a very long way in…
Kris Jamieson Was Unclear On Her Own Identity But Very Clear On Her Mom's
Content Warning: This episode discusses sexual violence, racism, depression and anxiety. As a kid, it made sense to Kris that she was adopted. She was the only person of color in her immediate family…
Ka Vang on War in Southeast Asia, ICE in Minnesota, and Mental Health Echoes
Content Warning: This episode discusses violence, murder, rape and generational trauma. Newspaper columnist and community business leader Ka Vang was born on a CIA base in Thailand 50 years ago. She…
Tracey Yokas on Helping Your Child While Making Sense of Your Own Childhood
Content Warning: This episode discusses grief, eating disorders, and self-harm. When author and artist Tracey Yokas lost her mother, which happened only a few months after her dad died, Tracey was…
Generational Trauma, Hypervigilance, and Moving Forward with Ophira Eisenberg
Content Warning: This episode discusses anxiety and generational trauma. New York based comedian, podcast host, and writer Ophira Eisenberg grew up in Calgary, the sixth child of parents who had…
Jason Tougaw on Finding Your Own Mental Stability When Your Family Didn’t Provide it
Content Warning: This episode mentions domestic abuse, substance abuse and suicide. Acclaimed writer and university professor Jason Tougaw has a very serene life now as an adult. He’s married,…
NPR’s Peter Sagal On Breaking Cycles and Learning From His Past
Content Warning: This episode discusses anxiety, depression and body dysmorphia. On the radio as the witty host of NPR’s Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me, Peter Sagal projects an upbeat and fun…
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In This Family has published 35 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Mental Health.
In This Family is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 44m.
