Can kids heal their parents? Or is that a burden we were never meant to carry?
In Episode 3, we sit down with Madhvi Juneja to explore one of the most uncomfortable and deeply personal questions of our time: the emotional role reversal between parents and children — and the trauma, silence, and responsibility that often come with it.
This conversation unpacks how unhealed trauma shows up across generations, why parents often struggle to recognise their own emotional wounds, and how children become the first to notice patterns of fear, control, guilt, or emotional shutdown at home. We talk about why these conversations are so difficult to initiate, why confrontation often shuts parents down, and how healing requires safety — not correction.
From understanding triggers and hypervigilance to recognising authority wounds, self-talk, and the body’s role in storing unresolved emotions, the episode breaks down how trauma lives on not just mentally, but physically and relationally. We also explore why labelling everything as trauma can block accountability, how judgement and rejection kill emotional space, and why vulnerability often has to be modelled — not demanded.
This episode doesn’t offer easy answers or saviour narratives.
It questions whether healing parents is even the right goal — and instead asks what responsibility, compassion, and boundaries really look like for children trying to break generational cycles.
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Hosts & Producers
Vishnu Kaushal
Jatin Juneja
Producers
Ayush Guha
Tarkeshwar Singh
Creative Director
Shubhi Raina
Creative Producer
Riddhi Sahni
Director of Photography
Jatin Gohar
Visual Design
Aadya Jaiswal
Editors
Jatin Gohar
Amrit Pratap Ranjan
Illustrations
Alisha Swain
Social Media and Streaming
Aarushi Anand
Set-up
Studio A2Z Interiors
Equipment & Crew
Sahil Films
Production Coordinator
Vaishnavi Sharma
