498 Did You Parent Your Parent? Understanding + Healing Child Parentification
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Did you have a lot of responsibility as a child?
Did you consistently make dinner for younger kids, babysit, clean the house, take care of a sick or compromised parent, or pick up siblings from school?
If you handled adult responsibilities like these as a child, this episode is for you. I am breaking down the causes of parentification, the long-term impact of child parentification, and the steps you can take to begin to heal.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to this episode |
| 0:02.3 | of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:03.8 | I wanna start with a question. |
| 0:05.6 | Were you a kid who had a lot of responsibilities? |
| 0:08.9 | Did you have younger siblings |
| 0:10.5 | that you were responsible for taking care of? |
| 0:12.9 | Were you cleaning a house, were you cooking dinner? |
| 0:16.1 | Were you taking care of a parent |
| 0:17.6 | who was an alcoholic or a drug addicted? |
| 0:20.8 | Were you the emotional caretaker |
| 0:23.5 | in your family system? |
| 0:25.7 | If you're not in your head, yes. |
| 0:27.3 | Then this episode, my friend, is for you. |
| 0:30.7 | Because in this episode, I'm gonna be talking about |
| 0:33.3 | what it means to be a parent-ified child. |
| 0:37.2 | So what are the circumstances that create that? |
| 0:40.5 | What it might look like, like what is the impact |
| 0:43.5 | in your adult life now? |
| 0:46.3 | And what steps you can take to heal that part of you |
| 0:51.8 | that might have had adult responsibilities |
| 0:54.2 | at a very young age. |
| 0:56.5 | So before we get moving, |
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