PART 5 || people are people, which means they're nuanced. not all good, not all bad. and it can be tough to look at our caregivers as people who had issues that affected us negatively, but it's essential if we want to grow.

RESOURCE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents-lindsay-c-gibson/1121368782 + https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-ptsd/202211/how-emotionally-immature-parenting-affects-our-adult-lives

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PART 4 || enmeshment vs. connection (and the slippery slope that separates them)

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PART 3 || people are people, which means they're nuanced. not all good, not all bad. and it can be tough to look at our caregivers as people who had issues that affected us negatively, but it's essential if we want to grow.

RESOURCE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents-lindsay-c-gibson/1121368782 + https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-ptsd/202211/how-emotionally-immature-parenting-affects-our-adult-lives

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PART 3 || people are people, which means they're nuanced. not all good, not all bad. and it can be tough to look at our caregivers as people who had issues that affected us negatively, but it's essential if we want to grow.

RESOURCE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents-lindsay-c-gibson/1121368782 + https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-ptsd/202211/how-emotionally-immature-parenting-affects-our-adult-lives

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PART 2 || people are people, which means they're nuanced. not all good, not all bad. and it can be tough to look at our caregivers as people who had issues that affected us negatively, but it's essential if we want to grow.

RESOURCE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents-lindsay-c-gibson/1121368782 + https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-ptsd/202211/how-emotionally-immature-parenting-affects-our-adult-lives

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people are people, which means they're nuanced. not all good, not all bad. and it can be tough to look at our caregivers as people who had issues that affected us negatively, but it's essential if we want to grow.

RESOURCE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents-lindsay-c-gibson/1121368782 + https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-ptsd/202211/how-emotionally-immature-parenting-affects-our-adult-lives

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When it comes to actually being 'chill' there's more to it than not speaking up.

RESOURCE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7983950/

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Too many of us "act chill" as a way to seem cool, but we end up torturing ourselves internally because we're not comfortable communicating what makes us comfortable. Instead, we need to learn when it's time to speak up for ourselves so we can become that "go with the flow" person we've always wanted to be.

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here's some of the standard practices I use when I'm meeting people from the internet. Let me know if you have others!

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I've learned so much about myself by simply letting things get AWKWARD when they start to. Instead of interfering, I lean in, listen, and learn. And I've learned so much.

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