Dealing with emotionally immature parents? We want your questions!
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
You might remember Dr Lindsay Gibson from our 2021 episode titled 'The damage done by emotionally immature parents (and how to heal)' — it was our most popular episode ever! Turns out a lot of you have emotionally immature parents…
Lindsay is coming back on the show in a few weeks, so this time, we want to ask her your questions in a mailbag episode.
Dr Lindsay Gibson is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author and an influential figure in the parent-child relationships space, so we're keen for questions about everything from narcissistic parents to family estrangement to modelling good parenting behaviour when you have your own kids…
Send your questions to allinthemind@abc.net.au with the subject line "question for Lindsay Gibson". Please let us know if you're happy for us to use your first name or if you'd rather be anonymous.
The deadline for questions is May 26.
Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Sana Khadar. A couple questions for you. Did you grow up with parents you could reasonably describe as emotionally immature? Are you worried you're becoming an emotionally immature parent yourself? And are you keen to raise emotionally mature children? Well, we have an upcoming episode of All In The Mind that we would love your input on and your |
| 0:26.0 | questions for. |
| 0:27.7 | It's with Dr. Lindsay Gibson, who you might remember from our 2021 episode that was titled |
| 0:32.9 | The Damage Done by Emotionally Immature Parents and How to Heal. |
| 0:36.7 | So I became aware that a lot of the clients that |
| 0:40.0 | I was seeing, once we started talking about their family dynamics, they were dealing with parents |
| 0:46.5 | who psychologically actually were not as healthy as the patient sitting in my office who had come for psychological care. |
| 0:56.0 | It was our most listened to episode ever, and it remains so. |
| 0:59.0 | So we've been keen to bring Lindsay back on the show ever since she first appeared. |
| 1:04.0 | And this time around, we're going to have our main interview with her about her latest book on raising emotionally mature children. |
| 1:10.0 | But we also want to do a |
| 1:11.6 | Q&A, a mailbag version of the show where you can ask her your questions about the parenting |
| 1:17.1 | you had or the parenting you would like to impart onto your children. We're keen for questions about |
| 1:22.0 | everything from narcissistic parents to family estrangement to modeling good parenting behavior |
| 1:27.2 | when you have kids of your own. |
| 1:29.2 | You can send your questions to All In The Mind at ABC.net.a.u. |
| 1:33.8 | And just write question for Lindsay Gibson in the subject line. |
| 1:38.0 | And let us know in your email if you're happy for us to use your first name when posing your |
| 1:42.2 | question to Lindsay, or whether you'd prefer to remain |
| 1:45.1 | anonymous. All right. Thank you. We hope to hear from you and we'll bring you that episode in a few |
| 1:50.8 | weeks' time. |
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