The Subtle Way Well-Intentioned Parents Leave Wounds (And How to Repair It)
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The Subtle Way Well-Intentioned Parents Leave Wounds (And How to Repair It)
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You don't have to be a perfect parent. But there is one thing that makes an enormous difference to what your child thinks about themselves, and it's not whether you lose your temper.
It's what you do after.
Young children can't separate what happens around them from what it means about them. When a rupture goes unaddressed, a child's brain doesn't file it under "mum was stressed." It files it somewhere far more personal.
Repeated enough, that filing system can shape how they move through the world as adults.
This episode covers:
• Why unaddressed conflict becomes the story a child tells about themselves, not about you
• What a genuine repair actually sounds like (and what it doesn't)
• Why the gap between rupture and repair is where the damage actually lives
• Why it's not too late if you're only hearing this now
If you've been losing sleep over the moments you got it wrong, those moments aren't the whole story. What comes next is.
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