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09: Q&A: A Traumatically Clean House

Struggle Care

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Maria Cardona: I grew up in a house which looked like a museum with absolutely nothing out of place. My mother would lose her mind if a fork was left in the sink. She was controlling critical and type A. How do I heal from years of this? Amanda Dotson: The problem wasn't really the cleanliness of the house. It was that the parent was overwhelmed, it sounds like, with their own expectations and anxieties. And instead of being able to regulate and cope with that, it got kind of spread all over the household.

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