EP 328: Prioritizing Yourself Over Your Relationship with Aprisa

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is about prioritizing ourselves and our children. Today’s caller, Aprisa, is a single mother who looks to others to get her needs met. She had a traumatic childhood and has not yet healed her inner child wounding. We also discuss depression and how highly-sensitive people have more proclivity to depression because feeling big emotions can feel scary.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[For show notes, go here:</span> <a href="http://christinehassler.com/episode328"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Christinehassler.com/episode328</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With single parents, the rightful roles of parent and child can get a little murky.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is important not to hide our emotions from our children. It is okay for them to see us sad or angry but we want to make sure they know it is not their responsibility. Sadness doesn't last forever but it is important to feel it because when we hold down our emotions they get stuck. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What often happens with people who are depressed is that they don't know what to do with their big feelings. They end up being distant, irritable, or sad. When what they need to get at is their anger, rage, grief, shame, and other big feelings. Oftentimes, when someone is diagnosed with depression it is important to look at the root cause and what else could be going on. And, many times the diagnosis of depression can be limiting. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we suppress our feelings and are not connected with our inner child we can collapse into the subconscious programming, patterning, and time travel when we are triggered.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be on the lookout for my soon-to-be-released Year in Review episode and join me in releasing 2021 and calling in 2022.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><st