Esther Calling - My Emotional Inheritance

I have to admit, I rolled my eyes when I heard the caller label herself 'pansexual', and all her talk about identity felt too general, scripted and consequently inauthentic. In other words, it didn't feel like *the* problem at all.

I also felt uncomfortably judgemental about a 36-year-old wanting therapy sessions with her parents. Does she not have a life outside her family? Is she still a hostage to her parents’ view of her?

I think Esther did a good job of steering her away from the narrative that her relationship with her father was a subplot within the grand drama of 'evil' Republican politics vs 'good' progressive politics. That view just leaves her father as a kind of scripted NPC, and, rather flatteringly, any frustration is because she stands alone on the side of the angels.