Advice from Claire: How to Reparent Yourself

Were your parents able to teach you every life lesson perfectly when you were a kid? Claire gives you some tips on how to make up for what you didn’t get when you were young by reparenting yourself now. Plus, she answers a question from a listener who is concerned her issues with mental health will negatively affect her children.

 

Check out these books Claire recommends about reparenting yourself:

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
• Mothers Who Can’t Love by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier Glynn
• Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel
• Healing Your Lost Inner Child by Robert Jackman

 

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