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When Parents Aren't Perfect: Grieving the Childhood You Deserved | The Healing Journey
In this episode of The Healing Journey, host Deanna Shailer explores the profound and often isolating experience of grieving the childhood you deserved but didn't receive. This narrative is designed for adults in their late twenties, thirties, or beyond who are beginning to see their parents not as infallible heroes, but as flawed, frightened humans who passed down their own unhealed wounds. If you have ever felt a quiet hollow ache when realizing your caregivers were 'just as lost' as you were, this episode provides a compassionate space to validate those feelings without guilt or shame.
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