
How to Reparent Yourself: Healing Your Inner Child as an Adult
If you grew up with emotionally neglectful or unavailable caregivers, chances are you often felt like the adult in the room long before you should have. You may have been the one your parent vented to, leaned on, or even turned to for emotional support. As a result, you might have grown up far too quickly, taking on responsibilities that no child should have to shoulder. Now, as an adult or maybe even a parent yourself, you might find yourself yearning to do things differently, to raise your own children with emotional presence and attunement. But how do you offer something you never received?