Therapy for Parents:
Creating Secure Attachment
"Becoming a loving Inner Adult/Parent to our Inner Child is the key to a productive and joyful life, as well as to the ability to establish and sustain intimacy".
Margaret Paul,
Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child
Parenting can be one of the most challenging and rewarding tasks in life. Children trigger us as almost no one else can. Parenting requires we be attuned to the needs of our children to nurture them. Parenting is based on creating a secure attachment with our children; a process which begins at birth and continues for years. (Some say for a lifetime!). Often we are not physically or emotionally open and available to see the needs of our children. At those times, we get triggered by their behavior and moods, leaving us feeling we have let them down or are inadequate parents.
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Our childhood trauma can make us vulnerable to these triggers. We may find our inner child tries desperately but ineffectively to parent our own children. By processing our own childhood trauma, we not only avoid repeating abusive and neglectful patterns, but give ourselves the parenting we did not receive. We can learn to relieve our inner child of the inappropriate task of parenting and strengthen our inner adult to parent our children more effectively. Using RRP (Relationship Recovery Program) is a highly effective way for parents to re-parent their inner child and through the process, become stronger and more capable parents.