Unlearning the Lessons of a Toxic Childhood [blogs.psychcentral.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/30/184:00 AM

I didn’t realize until relatively recently how much my view of things is shaped by childhood. I took the position, until I went into therapy, that at age 42, all of my problems had to do with the present. But they don’t.

Even my therapist said that my mother did the best she could, and I believed that and, frankly, thought I should just make do with what she did give me and muddle through. But that’s not the answer, I now realize. Reading this book has made me realize how much I am getting in my own way.

Everyone in my life keeps telling me to move on, that the past is the past, and I need to just get on with living in the moment. They just don’t get it. The little girl I was needs to be dealt with.

[For more on this story by Peg Streep, go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com...f-a-toxic-childhood/]

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