When We Heal Our Parental Wounds We Achieve Emotional Freedom

The how and the why of escaping the cycle of parental wounds once and for all.

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In the last decade, we have learned so much about child development and how an upbringing can shape a person’s adulthood. How we are raised, who we are raised by, it all adds up. It shapes who a child is and who they are capable of becoming. Parents shape their child’s outlook on everything from work to relationships in their adult lives.

The importance of parental involvement can’t be understated. Parents are the “make or break” difference in the long-term success of a child’s life.

Give a child a parent who is loving, accommodating, understanding, and fair, and you will see an adult who blooms into a fruitful life, filled with love and opportunity. Give a child a parent who harms them, and you are left with an adult who spends a lifetime nursing their parental wounds.

What is a parental wound?

These wounds are hurts and traumas left behind by parents who failed to address their children’s needs. The hurt from these wounds runs deep. Far from simply leaving the child with an unpleasant taste in their mouth, parental wounds can turn into major psychological damage that warps that child’s behavior and outlook well into their adult lives

For the adult children bearing these wounds, healing is crucial. Parental wounds can turn into cycles that annihilate a happy life. Finding peace requires climbing a mountain of acceptance, and truth, and re-learning what it means to be happy, fulfilled, and loved.

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The pain from parental wounds runs deep.

There’s no denying the fact that parental wounds come at a great cost for the children who bear them. The pain lingers, running all the way from childhood into the length and breadth of that child’s adult life. It follows, and the wounds change the way the child sees themselves and the world around them.