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Jan 2023
59m 20s

How Our Parents Fucked Us Up

Alex Cooper
About this episode

It’s time to understand the impact our parents had on us. This episode breaks down a variety of parenting styles: the “checked out” parent, the helicopter parent, the substance abusing parent, and the parent who shows their love through gift buying … just to name a few. How can the way we were raised impact the way we react and respond in certain situations? How can we come to understand the types of relationships we seek out and the patterns we get stuck in? Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nicole LePera is here to help us answer these questions and start the work we need to do if we want to meet our authentic selves and break the habits we were raised to live by.

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