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Psychology
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4 days ago

The Emotional Inheritance You Never Asked For

Parental alexithymia impairs emotional socialization, contributing to daughters' intimacy struggles and sons' somatic symptoms, but emotional literacy can be learned in adulthood.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Hard Part of Parenting Is Seeing Yourself in the Mirror

Somewhere in the process of parenting, you begin to see your younger self in your child-and you are forced to face the parts of yourself you have either buried or never fully understood. I started noticing this mirror effect when my daughter became a teenager. Suddenly, her behavior-makeup, boyfriend, confidence -was triggering emotions I did not expect.
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