EP 539: Healing Parent Wounds for Healthier Relationships

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode of Let’s Get Vulnerable, I’m diving deep into how our early relationships with parents shape the way we show up in love and life. I share why it's so important to recognize and heal our parent wounds — even if we didn’t experience “obvious” trauma — and how those early experiences form the blueprint for our adult relationships. I’ll walk you through how to grieve unmet needs, re-parent yourself, and create healthier, more secure connections moving forward.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

How your relationship with your parents created the blueprint for your adult attachment style — even if there wasn’t "obvious" trauma.
Why grieving unmet childhood needs is essential for your emotional healing and true self-care.
Practical strategies I teach for re-parenting yourself, recognizing your unique needs, and building healthier relationships — without needing reconciliation with your parents.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life.
0:22.3	Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing you
0:28.4	exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. You deserve to feel empowered,
0:34.8	secure, and love. Buckle up and let's get vulnerable.
0:41.9	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast.
0:44.9	It's your host, Dr. Morgan.
0:46.4	And today's episode is inspired by people inside of my community,
0:51.5	whether you are connecting with me on Instagram and the DMs or inside of my community, whether you are connecting with me on Instagram and the DMs or inside of
0:58.4	the empowered, secure, loved program. Obviously, I have a closer connection with the people in the
1:05.4	program, really getting to know them and knowing kind of what's coming up for them as they're on
1:09.8	their healing journeys. And this topic always comes up. We are going to talk about your relationship with your parents.
1:17.2	And obviously your parents can be anyone who was a primary caregiver for you. And the reality is
1:24.4	that no matter what you do in your healing journey, at some point, you will be
1:30.7	processing the relationship with your parents. And I think for those of you who have had a really
1:37.3	easy, you would say trauma-free relationship with your parents, sometimes it's really
1:43.9	surprising when you go deeper and you start
1:46.8	looking at the relational wounding or you start looking at the beliefs that you have about
1:51.2	relationships. And you can almost be surprised at the things that were there that you never saw
1:57.5	before. Because maybe you didn't have any obvious quote unquote trauma like the death
2:03.5	of a parent or divorce even, right? Or you were like, well, I was never beaten as a child, right?
2:11.4	Like our brains, we do these extreme things where we think, well, I didn't have it that bad.
2:16.2	And actually, that's just a form of
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