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What Would Dorcy Do
15 episodes
Why holding the line under family pressure is the real work
Jul 13, 2026 · 18 min
You've been ping-ponging between two impossible choices for years. Cut everyone off and become the cold one, the one who abandoned her family. Or keep everyone and keep losing yourself in every gathering. All or nothing. On or off. In or out. But your family isn't one thing. There's the parent who did the damage, the sibling who was also a kid in the house, the aunt who quietly saw you, the cousin you actually like. A blanket rule forces you to treat all of them the same. So you either lose the…
Why No Contact Didn't Unhook You
Jul 5, 2026 · 17 min
You did the hardest thing. You went no contact. You changed your number. You said what needed to be said. And then you waited to feel free. It didn't come. Or maybe it came for a week. Two weeks. And then your phone buzzed on a regular afternoon—not even her, just a notification with the same ringtone and your stomach dropped before your brain caught up. This episode is for the woman who's done years of therapy, read every book, gone no contact, and still feels the hook. Because the relationship…
The Decision That Was Finally Yours
Jul 1, 2026 · 25 min
They're calling it a trend like you woke up this morning, scrolled on TikTok for 45 seconds, and decided to throw your mother away. Like estrangement is a hashtag. Like cutting off a person who hurt you is the emotional equivalent to buying a Stanley cup because everyone else has one. But there's a different story underneath the headlines. In this episode, Dorcy breaks down the six invisible dynamics that kept you stuck—the moving goalpost, the identified patient, conditional belonging, the smea…
End Parental Alienation: You've Done Everything Right. Your Kid Still Won't Come Home.
Apr 30, 2026 · 22 min
There is something I need to say to a specific group of people who I know are watching and listening. The adult alienated children. The ones who grew up inside the fracture. Who were put in the middle of something no child should ever be placed in. Who were asked to choose, to carry, to perform a loyalty to one parent at the cost of loving the other. And the ones who became adults carrying a wound so old and so deep that they don't even recognize it as a wound anymore. It just feels like who the…
The Solution to Parental Alienation
Apr 1, 2026 · 16 min
Most attorneys walk into family court thinking they're handling a custody dispute. They're not. They're looking at a child protection case, and nobody in that courtroom knows how to name it correctly. Not the evaluator. Not the guardian ad litem. Not the therapist. The solution to parental alienation exists right now. It has existed for over a decade. Most professionals in the family court system have never been trained on it. In this episode, Dorcy gives attorneys, guardian ad litems, therapist…
35 Years of People Trying to Destroy Me. Here's What I Learned About Myself.
Mar 14, 2026 · 17 min
For over 20 years I have been called a child abuser by people who are psychologically abusing children. I have had false allegations made against me by someone I caught stealing. I have watched people I helped for free turn on me the moment I told them a truth they were not ready to hear. For a long time I asked the same question a lot of you are asking right now. What is wrong with me that this keeps happening. Nothing is wrong with me. And nothing is wrong with you either. In this episode I wa…
What Would Dorcy Do: The Family Court System Is Not Just Failing Families. It Is Killing Them.
Mar 12, 2026 · 12 min
Book a complimentary strategy call https://dorcypruter.com/contact/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=book-call Arkansas. Nevada. Florida. Three families destroyed in the past few weeks. Five children dead. Three mothers gone. All connected to family breakdown, divorce stress, and custody conflict. And the press is covering all three as isolated tragedies. They are not isolated. They are warning signals from a system that was designed to resolve legal disputes, not stabilize huma…
What Would Dorcy Do: Tumbler Ridge; Pathogenic Parenting and System Failure
Feb 24, 2026 · 30 min
This episode examines the Tumblr Ridge tragedy through a family systems lens. Instead of focusing only on the event itself, Dorcy Pruter analyzes the long term patterns that can develop inside destabilized family systems and the ways multiple institutions can fail to intervene effectively. Topics covered: • The psychological impact of parental erasure • Identity disruption in children exposed to chronic relational instability • Escalating behavioral crises that go untreated at the root level • S…
The Wound Didn’t Start With You But It Can End With You
Feb 23, 2026 · 15 min
Somewhere in your family line, someone was hurt. And without meaning to… they passed it on. In this episode of What Would Dorcy Do?, I share a moment that stopped me cold — sitting in a restaurant, overhearing a mother guilt her daughter in a way that will likely echo through that child’s nervous system for decades. It triggered me. And that’s the point. After 20+ years helping families heal, I still get triggered. Healing doesn’t mean the past disappears. It means you notice it. You name it. Yo…
The Family Dropout: Estranged, Alienated or Both?
Aug 16, 2025 · 37 min
Family Dropouts | Episode: Estrangement vs. Alienation – The Pain, the Patterns, and the Truth For twenty years, Maddie thought she had chosen to cut ties with her dad—only to discover she’d been manipulated into rejecting him. In this raw and revealing episode, Dorcy and Maddie unpack the tangled realities of estrangement, alienation, and child psychological abuse, and what happens when you’ve lived through both. They share personal stories, hard-earned insights, and a no-BS look at: How to tel…
The Family Dropouts: Family Roles Explained in a Way You’ve Never Heard Before!
Aug 9, 2025 · 46 min
Ever wondered why you’ve always been “the black sheep,” “the golden child,” or the one who disappears into the wallpaper? In this powerful episode of The Family Dropouts, Dorcy Pruter breaks down the family roles we never consciously chose—how they’re formed, why they stick, and the lasting impact they have on our self-worth, relationships, and identity. We dive into: The unspoken rules of unhealthy family systems Scapegoats, golden children, shapeshifters, and the invisible ones How birth order…
The Family Dropouts: What Estranged Adult Children Need to Know
Aug 1, 2025 · 41 min
What really happens after you go no contact with a parent? In this raw and powerful episode of The Family Dropouts, Dorcy Pruter 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…
The Family Dropouts: It’s Not a Diagnosis, It’s a Boundary: Healing Archetypes + the Truth About Estrangement”
Jul 31, 2025 · 35 min
In this powerful episode, Dorcy Pruter unpacks the emotional reality of family estrangement. They explore the difference between protection and punishment, why going no-contact isn’t a diagnosis, but a boundary, and how to reclaim your truth after being scapegoated or gaslit by your family. Discover the five Healing Archetypes (Flame Holder, Shadow Walker, Frequency Shifter, Lineage Breaker, Integrated Soul) and how they illuminate your soul’s unique path through trauma and toward liberation. Pl…
The Family Dropouts: We Didn’t Leave Our Families- We Left the Dysfunctional Patterns
Jul 29, 2025 · 33 min
Welcome to the very first episode of The Family Dropouts short series, where we’re not just breaking silence—we’re breaking cycles. In this raw and riveting kickoff, Dorcy Pruter share their deeply personal journeys of becoming "family dropouts" not because they stopped loving their families, but because they finally started loving themselves. This isn’t about estrangement for spite. It’s about conscious exits from systems that demanded self-abandonment as the price of admission. From scapegoat…
You're Not the Crazy One or The Voice You Keep Overriding. But What Would Dorcy Do?
Jul 28, 2025 · 5 min
You apologized again today for something that wasn't yours to carry. Then you spent the drive home wondering if you're the problem. You're not. You never were. You're the one who's the most competent person in every room and still feels hollow inside the achievement. You've done the therapy, read the books, set the boundaries, and you still wake up at 3 AM asking if you're the crazy one. You've been called too sensitive, too much, not grateful enough, for so long that you started to believe it.…
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