Reparenting is when a trained therapist steps in correct the mess created by your parent’s flaws and imperfections. You can also reparent yourself. Reparenting yourself involves going back to where your parents failed in your upbringing and addressing those shortcomings. It allows you to feed yourself with love and care your parents didn’t provide during your childhood.
Why Reparenting Is Important
When a child grows up in a toxic environment, they find it challenging to engage in or maintain meaningful relationships. Reparenting tends to elbow out any psychological issues you might have developed during your childhood, improving the quality of your relationships and life in general. These days, people from safe childhood environments also opt for reparenting for personality development and better mental wellness.
How to Reparent Yourself
Identify the needs That Went Unfulfilled During Your Childhood
As a child, your parent was responsible for your physical, social, emotional and psychological needs. When even one of these needs goes unfulfilled, you will likely experience self-image and perception issues during adulthood. As a result, your self-esteem, self-worth and confidence might be shaken. Identifying the needs that went unfulfilled during you childhood and their consequences can help change your self-perception about your relationships and life.
Take Care of Your Inner Child
Reparenting focuses on important aspects of an individual, including the inner child, parent and adult. The inner child is the origin of your psychological issues, the parent is a professional or someone who helps you get the love and care you missed during your childhood, and the adult is the grown you. If you are reparenting yourself, you may really want to make peace with your childhood and shower yourself with love, respect and kindness. By doing so, your inner child is more likely to heal.
Ignore Your Inner Critic
When you start loving, respecting and being kind to yourself, your inner critic might fire up. You might experience guilt and shame for giving yourself things you didn’t get as a child. To successfully reparent yourself, ignore your inner critic and constantly remind yourself you deserve love and affection.
Satisfy Your Needs
After identifying your needs that went unfulfilled during your childhood, find a way to satisfy them. Attending to these needs will help you engage in meaningful relationships and live a happy life.
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The work of a family doctor includes a wide range of clinical diversity, which requires extensive knowledge and erudition from a specialist. However, I believe that the most important thing for a family doctor is to be human because the cooperation and understanding between the doctor and the patient are crucial in ensuring successful health care. On my days off, I love being in nature. Since childhood, I have been passionate about playing chess and tennis. Whenever I have time off, I enjoy traveling around the world.
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