Overlooked Types Of Childhood Trauma
Be at peace before speaking your piece
In deciding when to talk to your parents about how they impacted you, Dumaz says, “An optimal time –though it can’t always happen – is when we’ve done our own work, and when we are in a place of peace, and of forgiving ourselves, and forgiving the caregiver. That doesn’t necessarily have to mean that what the caregiver did wasn’t wrong or harmful. But now we are no longer blaming.”