EP43 Breaking Up With Your Parents

On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay and Abby are talking about Breaking up with your Parents! Lindsay and Abby share their own experiences with this and our own understanding of breaking up with our parents and everything in between!

0:00 Intro

2:24 "We cannot heal in the same place we were wounded"

4:07 "Our parents did the best that they could, even if they didn't do a great job."

7:38 "You have to grieve the loss of your parents twice" Lindsay and Abby talk about co-dependent relationships with your parental figures

12:40 Judgement, anger and resentment towards our parents and the projected image of what a parent should look like

13:54 Awareness that the relationship and patterns between you and your parent(s) just aren't working anymore

15:17 Are you taking them with you on your journey through healing or are you leaving them where they are?

19:50 This is an invitation to you, to meet your own needs

22:19 Breakthrough. You have got to acknowledge your pain and validate it!

26:30 Boundaries to keep ourselves safe in our relationships with our parents

28:54 Abby shares about her experience with her family on her recent vacation. A powerful reflection and vulnerable share about her experience and how she showed up.

30:05 More about co-dependency with our parents

32:02 What are you making it mean about you?

33:07 Final thoughts and shares from Abby and Lindsay

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