You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their behaviors.

My name is Andrea and this is Ital Child.

Welcome back to Ital Child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing

up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoi, my dear Shachio, Shachio, Shon, Shon, how are we doing?

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea, and here's my deal.

I grew up in an alcohol household, I became an alcoholic myself, I got sober at the age

of 19, and then in 2018 with nine years of sobriety and nine years of toxic, romantic

relationships, I hit an emotional bottom that was even more painful than the bottom that

brought me into sobriety.

And that pain turned out to be the biggest damn blessing of my entire life because it

was through that pain that I came to terms with the true impact that my child had had

on me, and that I was an adult child.

And that was such a relief because for years I was convinced that I was inherently flawed

and unfixable when the fact was that I was just an adult child.

And there are a shitload of people out there who, once like me, are convinced that they

are inherently flawed and unfixable when in fact they're just adult children.

And I created this podcast in hopes of reaching as many of those damn people as possible.

Alright y'all, buckle up because we got a goody come in your way.

Today we are diving deep into adult children of emotionally immature parents, and we are

speaking with the woman who has coined this term, Dr. Lindsey Gibson.

So we haven't really talked about this that much on the pod adult children of emotionally

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