Is CHILDHOOD anxiety hijacking your parenting? (VLOG)

Sometimes the stage or age that your child is going through brings up unprocessed events from your own life when you were at that same stage or age.

Whilst this might feel triggering at the time (the reason you know that your reaction is being dictated by your past), it is actually an opportunity to heal an experience that you were probably not psychologically mature enough to process back then, and most definitely didn't get the support you needed to be co-regulated through the feelings it provoked (which is why they are coming back up now).

Here's a recent example of this happening to me (via my daughter's looming exams) and how I worked through it with my inner parent.