How to Stop Resenting Your Parents
Call Her Daddy

How to Stop Resenting Your Parents

B1IntermediateSeptember 13, 20261 hr

This week, Alex discusses the complicated reality of resenting your parents while still wanting a close relationship with them. She dives into how childhood wounds can continue to shape us as adults, why we keep hoping our parents will change, and how disappointment can pull us right back into old dynamics. She also shares advice on lowering expectations, setting boundaries, practicing radical acceptance, and protecting your peace without excusing the ways your parents may have hurt you. Enjoy! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of...

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Welcome back to another Sunday session with your father, everyone. You know, I love Sundays because they're just you and me. No distractions, no drama, just the girls chatting about life, right? which I guess can actually inevitably cause a little bit drama, but we always aim to leave

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feeling a little bit better at the end of these episodes, right? We dive in, we address things head on, sometimes they can be uncomfortable, and then we lift ourselves right back up all on a Sunday. It's beautiful.

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So in the spirit of addressing things head on, something I always say we have to go back to on call her daddy is our childhood because like it or not so much of who we are, how we love, how we react, how we fight, how we cope. It's deeply impacted by what happened to us when we were younger, right?

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