Complex Trauma Recovery Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents through Reparenting with Guest Therapist Jessica Frick
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Jul 2, 2023 AI Snips
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Emotionally Immature Parents Defined
- Emotionally immature parents usually have stunted emotional development, often due to generational trauma or societal taboos around emotions.
- This stunting leads them to react childishly to emotional situations, impacting their ability to emotionally support their children.
Impact on Children’s Emotional Growth
- Children raised by emotionally immature parents often don't learn emotional regulation and must handle feelings on their own.
- Without modeling healthy emotional responses, they inherit maladaptive emotional coping strategies from their parents.
Role Reversal and Parentification
- Emotional immaturity leads to role reversals like parentification, where children manage their parents' emotions.
- These children grow up prioritizing others' feelings and needs over their own due to poor boundaries and projection from parents.