This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This Podcast.

Well guys you're about to be convicted by the title just the title of this woman's book

Her name is Dr. Lindsey Gibson and she is a clinical psychologist who has a private practice.

Primarily, she works with adult children of emotionally immature parents.

And that is the name of her book, adult children of emotionally immature parents. So I know everybody right now is feeling convicted, but I also know we are all children of parents.

And so today on this episode, I want to speak to the part of you that is a kid and that grew up with your

parents rather than you analyzing your own parenting in this moment I want you to

think about yourself as a kid and how emotions were dealt with in your home.

Because that's a lot of what you've studied

Dr. Gibson and a lot of what you counsel

is that dynamic of we learn a lot of our emotional well-being or lack thereof from the people who raised us.

Yeah, and of course that's made even more difficult when the people who have raised us haven't finished

their growing up themselves. So you know emotional immaturity and maturity is

on a continuum.

There's no completely emotionally mature person

and there's no completely emotionally immature person.

We vary on a continuum according to, you know know how well things are going whether we're well

rested whether we're sick or not sick I mean it's a little bit variable but if you hit a couple of the hallmarks of emotional immaturity, it's going to be very

hard for you to give your child the kind of close connection and understanding that kids really need to develop

their own sense of self and their sense of security in the world.

So again, I want you to think about your parents.

I want you to think about the home you were raised in

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