Lessons As You Let Go (forgiving your parents) 🤍

As someone who grew up in a single parent household along with childhood trauma, I know how difficult it can be to dig yourself out of it and repair your relationship with your parent/parents.

However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized a few things along the journey that have helped me heal and now have a relationship with them that is much healthier.

–They did what they could with what they had and knew at the time: we are all humans. We aren’t perfect and we all have healing journey’s that follow their own path. Accepting this for your parent(s) helps you see them in a different light and helps you let go a bit.

–They can’t grow if they don’t know what they did: I used to be scared to open up about the pain because I thought it would re-open the wound. Personally, it helped us heal together because we put it all out there and communicated. Our parent(s) can’t read minds, so talking it out can be helpful in some instances.

–Putting the Past Behind You: holding onto resentment brings it into your “now” and also your future. You deserve peace, so sometimes being the one to be able to put it down is worth it. And for those that don’t feel their parents don’t deserve it, please remember that it’s more about you than them.

“Forgiving them is more about you. YOU deserve to be free from it, even if they don’t deserve forgiveness.”

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