Produced by the ilab at Wbur Boston.
The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick.
The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh, dear.
So won't you please share some little sweet days with me?
I check my bell eyes every day oh, in the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hello, Cheryl.
I say, actually weirdly upbeat greeting.
I'm always very happy to see you.
But the subject today, not so upbeat, not so happy.
It's a heavy one.
Yeah.
We're going to talk today about.
We've called this episode in the shadow of a damaged parent.
And it is really, we get such a multitude of letters that really, when you boil it down, has to do with how do you live in the shadow of a parent who was in one way or another, damaged?
And to what extent do we, as kids, we're all kids of some set of parents, inherit some of that damage?