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It started with a reel seen by 2.2 million people.

You thought it was just your family. It's one in four.

Inside his brand new book, psychology PhD, breathwork researcher and author Richard Blake examines why family estrangement is exploding, and what therapy culture has to do with it.

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You've been asking the wrong question.

The letter, or the silence, used words you didn't recognise. Toxic. Unsafe. Boundaries. The door closed, no discussion allowed. Ever since, you've asked yourself the same thing: what did I do? It's the natural question. It's also the wrong one. The real question is where those words came from.

  • The story you were given: This happened because of who you are. You were a bad parent, and your grief just proves it. So you've carried it alone, sure that your situation was rare.

  • What the research actually shows: More than one in four adults live through some form of estrangement. It's being driven by a cultural shift that moved out of the therapy room and reshaped millions of families. You might be part of the story. You're almost certainly not the whole of it.

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Richard Blake

I'm not a life coach.

I never set out to write about estrangement. I trained as a therapist, then left when I could no longer defend what the profession's own data was telling me. I took the research route instead, earned a PhD in psychology, and ran the largest trial of its kind in my field. Then I posted a short reel linking therapy culture to family cutoffs. It got 2.2 million views, and the comments weren't arguments. They were parents describing the same loss in the same borrowed language.

I'm not a life coach, and I have no stake in the estrangement industry, which is exactly why I could examine it honestly. What I found is that a field built on wellbeing has quietly started breaking the relationships we need most. If you've been cut off and can't make sense of it, this is the map I wish someone had handed you.

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Richard Blake helps estranged parents understand the forces behind family cutoffs, grieve a loss the culture refuses to name, and stay whole while the door stays open. Research-led, free of self-help cliché.

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