🎙️ JULY SERIES — Everything No One Tells You About Growing Up
In Episode 2 of July on No Me Callo / I Won’t Stay Quiet, Jessica Lomelin continues the series “Everything No One Tells You About Growing Up” with a deeply emotional and honest conversation about a moment that often arrives in silence: the day you realize your parents were also learning as they went.
In this episode, Jessica explores the emotional impact of no longer seeing your parents as perfect figures, and instead beginning to see them as human. She reflects on how, as you grow up, you start to revisit childhood phrases, silences, and decisions that once felt painful or confusing, but now carry a different meaning. What once felt like control, distance, or harshness begins to reveal itself as fear, exhaustion, and a lack of emotional tools.
Throughout the episode, Jessica shares how this shift in perspective can feel deeply complex. On one hand, it can be painful to realize your parents didn’t have all the answers. On the other hand, it can be freeing to understand they were also improvising life while trying their best. She explores the tension between anger, understanding, and compassion and how all of these emotions can exist at the same time without canceling each other out.
She also dives into an uncomfortable but transformative truth: understanding your parents often means beginning to understand yourself. In recognizing their humanity, you start releasing the pressure of perfection on yourself and accepting that you are also learning, failing, and rebuilding in real time.
Far from excusing everything or erasing past pain, this episode is an invitation to look at family history with more depth and less judgment. To recognize that love is not always expressed perfectly but it is still love. And that often, what hurts the most is not what was done… but everything they never knew how to do.
Throughout the episode, one question stays present:
What changes in you when you stop expecting perfection from the people who raised you and begin to see them as human?
And maybe the answer is not in the past but in how you choose to hold your own story today. Because maybe growing up is not about looking back less… but about learning to look back with more compassion.
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