Hey everyone. Welcome back to Jillian on Love, where I discuss all things, relationships,

primarily romantic relationships, our relationship with ourselves, and sometimes our relationships

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I have gotten a lot of requests to do a podcast on how to heal your relationship with your parent,

whether it's a narcissistic parent, an alcoholic parent, or any parent where your needs were not met.

And if you are an adult and you've been carrying around this pain or this grief

or this anger or all of the above towards a parent and you don't want it to control you anymore

and you don't want it to control your relationships, then this is the episode for you.

I truly believe that some of the, maybe the most intense,

quote unquote, spiritual work that we are tasked with is how to make peace with our parents or a parent. This obviously doesn't apply to everyone,

but there are many people who have a relationship with one parent, sometimes both, but more

often it's one parent that is very challenging. And learning how to

make peace with our parents so that, like I said, it doesn't control us anymore and it doesn't,

and our relationship with them, doesn't control our romantic relationships,

doesn't control our career, doesn't control our life choices, is, like I said, one of the

most difficult things to do. My father, when I was a very young child, came out with a best-selling book that put him on the map as one of the most highly regarded psychiatrists in the world.

And that book was called The Difficult Child. The Difficult Child was based on me. I was a difficult child and he

talked about me in it and he named my name. And so I throughout my life was walking around with

this belief that I was difficult. It was part of my identity.

And it's something that infiltrated every part of my life

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