The Good Child’s Guide to Emotional Freedom
I know and see what you’ve carried, how perplexed you may be with your relationship with your parent and I also know that 'icky' feeling that you can't shake
When You Were the One Holding Everything Together
Some adults grow up carrying emotional burdens that were never theirs to hold.
You may have been the “good child,” the emotional caretaker, the one who kept the peace, the one who met everyone else’s needs while quietly abandoning your own.
If you were raised to be your parent’s emotional anchor — their confidant, their comfort, their source of stability — you may now feel:
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Responsible for everyone’s feelings
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Guilty for wanting space
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Afraid of disappointing others
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Unsure where you end and your parent begins
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Exhausted from being “the strong one”
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Unable to say no without shame
You are not broken.
You were conditioned.
And you deserve freedom.