@professor.steph: Waaaaait who said that?! It’s the family estrangement ghost 👻🤣❤️‍🩹 Jk. Let this be a reminder of radical acceptance — i’m not approving or condemning your choice. I’m just encouraging you to be present with and accept your current reality. You made the best choices at the time that you could with the tools you had at your disposal. Those choices often had negative impacts on your children, even when you didn’t want them to. Your children have spoken to you about how that has hurt them and you now have the choice to do something about it. Choosing to reconcile and repair with your children DOES mean that you will have to face inordinate amounts of pain and navigate through it so that you can reach your child. And parents are doing that every single day it is possible and I know that it is possible because I bear witness to it every single day every single day I see parents fight through their pain and parental shame so that they can hold parental availability and openness to their children who are hurt and distrustful and scared and longing for a parent, but don’t know if they really have one. You can do that you can be that be the parent you always needed, but didn’t have be that strong stronger, wiser other. If you want to repair with your child, but you don’t know how to navigate the shame, overwhelme and despair, my emotions 101 class that I have running in my online therapy school, the attachment Academy is a good place to start. ##estanged##nocontact##estrangedadultchildren##family##familyiasues##gentleparenting##parents##parent##parenting##parentingtips##childhood##childhoodtrauma##therapy##therapytok##therapistsontiktok##MentalHealth

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