Deep Dive with Sisters Amy and Meg on Hard Conversations

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sisters Amy and Meg's story reveals how even the closest family bonds can fracture – and heal. Growing up with a widowed mother in the 1960s, their relationship became strained by years of unbalanced dynamics and taken-for-granted love. When Meg finally stepped away, it led to painful years of separation that affected both sisters and their families. Through persistence, humility and grace, they found their way back to each other, rebuilding their relationship one Sunday hike at a time. Their path from estrangement to reconciliation demonstrates how healing begins with showing up, asking questions, and making the other person a priority – proving that sometimes the hardest conversations lead to the most meaningful transformations. (Note: for anyone unfamiliar with the "Go Birds!' comment at the end of the pod - Kelly, Amy and Meg all share having grown up in the Philadelphia area and at the time of this recording, the Philadelphia Eagles are on their way to the 2025 Super Bowl. "Go Birds!" is a shortened form of "Go Eagles!" but has become a widely used way to share Philly pride and is now a stand-in for, "Hi", "Bye", "Thanks", "Have a nice day" or just about anything else.) This episode was made possible by a grant from Templeton Religion Trust. To learn more, go to templetonreligiontrust.org. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. Today I'm wondering about sibling divorce, if you will. And if there are ways in which siblings do sometimes need to separate completely before they can actually mend. My conversation partners are sisters, Amy and Meg.
0:56.4	They did not speak for four years.
0:58.7	After growing up in a house marked by tragedy and mental illness,
1:03.0	Meg and Amy's relationship as adults reached a breaking point on a shared vacation,
1:08.1	and they found themselves estranged until something shifted and they found
1:13.8	their way back to one another. Their story has so much to teach us about forgiveness and starting over
1:19.5	and the courage it takes to look at yourself from every angle. This is the fourth episode in our
1:26.0	hard conversation series where we explore how people bridge profound differences using curiosity, intellectual humility, and legit apologies to recreate some form of connection.
1:39.3	Here's my conversation with Sisters Meg and Amy.
1:47.3	So, Meg. conversation with sisters Meg and Amy. So Meg, Amy, will one of you get us started by just telling us a little bit about your
1:53.1	family makeup and your childhood?
1:55.4	Sure, I'll jump in.
1:56.9	So our family makeup is unique because imagine in, you have a beautiful husband and wife who have two beautiful daughters who are three and four years old,
2:08.8	lived the perfect life by Valley Forge Mountain.
2:13.2	And you're also eight months pregnant.
2:16.6	And you live in a neighborhood where everyone, you know, is living life large.
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