Parentification
When you had to be the grown-up: Understand what happened, how it shows up now, and how to heal.
November 24th
Recording of this month's Q&A session with Whitney.
Reparenting isn’t about changing the past or blaming someone. It’s about offering yourself the care and consistency you deserved then, today.
Even if you didn't get to have carefree activities as a kid, you deserve to let yourself experience that now.
Every time you pause, choose rest, or say no, you’re breaking a cycle.
You were never meant to be your parent’s therapist, caretaker, or emotional crutch. You were meant to be their child.
November 17th
This worksheet is for adults who were parentified as children and are now ready to reclaim their boundaries.
Parentified children can grow up with a warped sense of boundaries that carries into adulthood.
Scripts to get you started with setting boundaries with a parent who emotionally parentified you.
You don’t have to save anyone to be good. You don’t have to fix them to be free.
November 10th
Parentification might be causing you to feel responsible for or fix all the problems you didn't solve in multiple areas of your life.
Small steps you can take to help you release control and set small, manageable boundaries in your daily life.
How children become their parent's therapist.
This worksheet will help you identify how behaviors caused by parentification are resurfacing in your daily life.
November 3rd
Use this checklist to help you determine if you were parentified as a child.
These scripts will help you bring up parentification and (hopefully) minimize defensiveness or minimization from the other side.
You might have been parentified — and in this video, Whitney explains what that really means.
When you’re forced to grow up too soon, you learn to survive in ways that most adults never have to.