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IMAD Processing Prompt - Are you a parent to your parent?
Dear Reader
Over-responsibility has been a theme and a focus for me for a few months now.
The reason being, is my mum is one of the remaining people in my life where I have still held a lot of emotion around holding responsibility for her physical and emotional well being.
The beauty is I have had many opportunities to change the patterns I conditioned myself with, and let go my over-responsibility.
What has happened and unfolded has been, I have to say, pretty cool.
I have had new experiences with my mum. Different interactions, changes in how we communicate and the biggy, we have had happy times, as opposed to serious times.
One of the things I discovered in my processing and the steps I have taken to unravel this conditioning, is that I have missed out on being a daughter with my mum. Instead I have held a parent role with her, in certain areas. I have been serious, the problem solver and the protector.
The fact that I have realized this while mum and I are still physically present in each other's lives is important to me.
It is a whole new way of being for me to explore. I know there are times when I have been a daughter to my mum now I just need to remember them and connect to them and what it felt like, to integrate this part of me.
If you are a parent, and you have wonderfully over-responsible children who tend to parent you or treat you like children (mum shared a few of her friends have said lately "they feel like they are being treated like children"), take the time to ensure that they have the experience of being your daughter or son, and what that means to the both of you.
The more conscious both of you are of experiencing this, the more powerful the process can be in what unfolds.
If your parents are still in your life and you parent them, then create the space for you to be their daughter or son, for them to be your parent and embrace and love the experience.
Even though I only had eighteen years with my father in my life, there was one hour of my life after those eighteen years when we did have contact and I got to be a daughter and my father was my dad.
An experience I consciously opened up to and embraced. Something I have cherished that I got to experience.
The quantity of time of these experiences is something I have chosen not to focus on, rather the quality of the experience.
Allow yourself to be a parent, allow yourself to be a son, to be a daughter and enjoy every moment of it.
PS: If you are interested in hearing more about the steps I have taken around my over-responsibility with my mum (or mom) and the journey we have been on, check out my latest I Make a Difference Podcast
I Make a Difference
Melinda Cates
True Self Facilitator and Soul Adventurer - Empowering individuals to break through their limitations, unravel conditioning, heal from old wounds, and reconnect to their true selves.
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