Mental Health-ish
Mental Health-ish
Host: Susie Navarro
The Pressure to be the Parent You Never Had
14 minutes Posted Jul 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
Welcome Back and Topic Introduction
Motherhood as a Healing Experience
Understanding Parental Overcompensation
Ways Overcompensation Shows Up
Finding Balance in Parenting
Episode Closing and Encouragement
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Send us Fan Mail The moment I held my daughter for the first time, my heart felt like it would burst with love. That powerful experience became the catalyst for my healing journey, highlighting a painful question: why wasn't my own mother ever affectionate with me? Parenting after experiencing childhood neglect creates a complex emotional landscape where many of us find ourselves overcompensating and desperately trying to give our children everything we lacked. This affects countless p...