159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run? with Dr. Galit Atlas
We Can Do Hard Things
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How Do We Regulate Our System?
Parents who want to cut ties with their children often become so dysregulated that they start pursuing the child angrily. The insecure parent becomes really frightened and they think like, Oh, my baby is telling me I'm a bad mom. But babies always come back because what else do they have? They have you,. You know what, even as a mother, I had to remind myself that because we all forget that where are they going to go?"
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