Ryan Holiday: Few of us felt completely understood as kids. He says we can't go back in time and get them to understand us in a moment that is no longer there. Therapy can give you the tools to find balance in your life so you can keep supporting others without leaving yourself behind, he says.
Few of us felt completely understood as kids. At a young age, our parents didn’t quite understand what we were saying, what we wanted, how much we missed them when they were gone, how scared we were when we were alone. When we got older, they didn’t seem to remember just how hard it was to be a teenager, how overwhelming the world was, how different we felt from others, how behind we sometimes felt (as we wrote recently). And now as adults, we struggle too–maybe our spouse doesn’t fully get us. Maybe our parents are incapable of seeing or listening to us when we try to communicate about wounds we carry from the past.
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