Parenting - Is Your Past Changing Your Life?

"I had no coping skills, no resiliency to be found anywhere. Advocating for myself even meant let alone what it looked like or how to do it," she says. "i definitely did the work to know that i didn't want that type of relationship with my kids where they resented me." She also came into the world very unprepared on so many levels. Low confidence, afraid of ever showing up and getting noticed,. Because getting noticed in my house meant getting abused. It was better to stay quiet. And this left her feeling very far behind in life. When i was 30, i felt like i was where i should have been at 20".