If you were raised by an emotionally immature parent (or two), you might feel trapped in unfulfilling relationships with your parents and others in your life. You might struggle to feel like a fully-functioning adult yourself.

Children raised by parents who were emotionally neglectful, explosive, or otherwise lacking in emotional maturity often experience feelings of deep insecurity, resentment, and loneliness. You might have a sense that you lack certain skills that others readily possess. Difficulties with decision-making, boundaries and individuating from caregivers are common for children of emotionally immature parents. You might struggle to regulate your emotions because you were never taught or modeled how to do so. You might cycle between being completely untrusting and overly trusting of others, because your caregivers were inconsistent and unpredictable.

It’s not too late to begin healing. It’s not too late to begin breaking cycles of generational trauma.