I have found journaling to be an invaluable part of my healing journey. It is time just for me to contemplate my life, think about relationships, and have space to allow my intuition, different perspectives and ideas to come through. …
Category: Healing
Why You Find Caregiving Exhausting as a Parentified Child
As a parentified child, one of the ways you received love and acceptance was through caring for your siblings and/or parents. This may have been expressed as a compulsion as an adult, which may have contributed to moving naturally into …
Parentification in Action
You might find this interesting! A study of 783 university students into the links between parentification and later adult wellness showed those who experienced parentification have an increased risk of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and substance abuse (Hooper, Marotta, & …
Some Reasons a Child Becomes An Adult Too Soon.
As I mentioned in the last post, there are two types of parentification: ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง – Acting as a friend and confidant to a parent, becoming the peacemaker, emotionally supporting the family. I๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง – helping the family with physical …
What is Parentification?
Not everyone who experiences parentification also experiences negative effects as adults. However, some of the things you may experience are a loss of a sense of playfulness and a feeling of not having had a fun childhood. There is often …
When We Have Emotionally Immature Parents
Letโs start with emotionally immature parents. Your parents were emotionally immature because THEIR parents were emotionally immature. Emotional maturity is passed through family lines. If we are raised by people who know how to have healthy boundaries, self-regulate, have functional, …
What is Complex PTSD?
Complex trauma refers to a childโs continued exposure to traumatic events, which are often interpersonal and intrusive. This could be physical abuse, neglect, or attachment issues with the primary caregiver. When a child is abused or neglected, attachment issues occur. …
Meditation Practice
Coming to a place of mindfulness is about bringing our awareness into the present. So often, we are physically present but mentally somewhere completely different. When we are connected to our body, thorough mindful breath or mindful walking, we are …
Meditation
Mindfulness has been a big part of my healing journey. I first learned to meditate about 22 โ 23 years ago, when the research and hype about meditation had not yet landed. โฃโ โฃโ I bought a book called โMeditation …
Compassion
If you listen long enough, most spiritual teachers will start to talk about the mind as having โseedsโ. All the โseedsโ in the mind have different vibrations. There might be seeds of fear, seeds of self-criticism, seeds of boredom, and …