How to Deal With Difficult Parents | E107

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Do you have issues with your parents? If so, you're normal. As a therapist, family therapist, and life coach I know that many, if not most, people in their twenties, thirties, and forties are still working through different aspects of their relationships with their parents. This doesn't mean rehashing the past, but rather letting go of old baggage so that you can move forward into the life you design. Though this work can be challenging, it can also be absolutely necessary for you to re-define your relationships with your family of origin as you grow into your happiest, healthiest, "best self." Understanding how you relate/d to your family can also be profoundly important to understanding how you relate to your spouse and children. Sometimes, this work involves healing, and forgiving your parents for things that happened in the past. You may need to learn how to establish healthy adult relationships with your parents, as you create your own family. Or, you might need to set new boundaries with your parents, and release the responsibility and guilt your're carrying. It's a lot, and for many this type of work can feel very "big" and overwhelming. So on this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, I'm going to be talking you through some really common "parent problems" that adults face, and give you some tips for how to resolve them successfully. This episode might be helpful to you if you have: Critical parents, judgmental parents or (shiver) narcissistic parents. Intrusive parents, controlling parents, or generous parents who give gifts with strings attached. Parents who are a mess, and emotionally or financially dependent on you. Unfinished emotional business with parents who have disappointed you, or hurt you. Yes, these are deep topics, but ones I know that so many of you can relate to. I hope that the advice I share here can help you to not just create healthier and happier relationships with your parents, but can launch you on your own empowering journey of healing and growth. May peace be with you, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby www.growingself.com

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.
0:07.0	Nothing is ever as good as it was.
0:15.0	And what's good for your soul be bad on your nerves if you reverse it.
0:24.6	It's bound to melt your heart one way or another.
0:30.6	It's bound to melt your heart for good or for bad.
0:35.6	It's like a fun time. From your mother, it's bound to That's Jenny Lewis and the Watson twins.
0:42.0	That's Jenny Lewis and the Watson twins with Melt Your Heart.
0:47.8	I think that song so beautifully captures just the bitter sweetness of some relationships. And I thought it was appropriate
0:57.7	for us today because we are going to be tackling something pretty big on the show today.
1:04.6	We are going to be talking about some of the sometimes most complicated relationships in our adult lives, which is the relationships
1:14.9	that we have with our parents as adults. And I wanted to talk about this today, as I mentioned
1:21.9	in previous podcasts, because I have been getting so many questions from my listeners of the podcast.
1:30.5	And thank you so much for getting in touch and letting me know what's going on in your life.
1:34.7	But also, you know, my clients that I see in my practice for counseling and coaching here at Growing Self.
1:41.5	So I figured I would devote an episode of the podcast today to
1:46.7	talk about this subject and answer some of your questions and talk about some different
1:51.4	situations to just kind of give you some guidance about what to do if your relationship with your parents is also complicated like they are for so many people.
2:06.3	So before we jump in, I should probably introduce myself.
2:10.7	I'm feeling like I haven't formally done that in a while.
2:13.5	If this is your first time listening to this show, hi, welcome.
2:17.9	I'm so glad that you found this.
2:19.8	I'm Dr. Lisa Marie-Bobby.
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