Codependency, Abandonment, and the Weight We Carry

Codependency, Abandonment, and the Weight We Carry

In this raw and unscripted conversation, Jared Moses sits down with friend, advisor, and life coach Dr. Eric Nutting to unpack the quiet burdens of adoption, abandonment, and codependency. Together, they explore what it means to carry unmet needs into adulthood, the pressure to be the “good kid,” and how unresolved family dynamics shape our relationships, careers, and self-worth. This isn’t a highlight reel—it’s a deep dive into the real, painful, and honest work of growing up and letting go.

Episode 1: It Ends With Us: Unscripted Truths & Breaking Cycles

In the premiere of Family Therapy, two brothers sit down to break decades of silence. Host Jared Moses and his older brother Tony dive into the truths they were never allowed to say out loud—about family, fatherhood, trauma, and survival. Tony shares the weight he carried as a child—exposed to drugs, violence, and street life before age ten—and how it shaped his instincts and parenting. Jared opens up about being a people-pleaser shaped by a strict religious upbringing, struggling to speak up even when he knew the answer. They confront their deeply different relationships with their father: one raised in his shadow, the other in his absence. They unpack what it means to become a man too early, what they were taught to suppress, and how each of them learned to survive. Then, for the first time, they speak openly about childhood sexual abuse—Jared by a stepsister, Tony by multiple people—and the long shadow that trauma cast over their lives. This isn’t just a conversation. It’s a reckoning. A refusal to carry silence any longer. This is what it means to say, “It ends with us.”