Becoming the Parent You Needed

This episode starts with Mother's Day and Father's Day... and morphs into a conversation about grief, healing, and what it means to become the safe place you never had. We talk about how hallmark holidays can feel so complicated for adult children of emotionally immature parents, especially when you're a parent yourself. How do you celebrate your nuclear family while carrying the weight of the one you came from? Somewhere along the way there's a hard hitting realization that we're grieving something that never really existed: the relationship we hoped we'd have. We also talk about what happens when you stop expecting one person to fill every emotional need, why "being mothered" can come from unexpected places, and why breaking generational cycles is both incredibly healing and incredibly exhausting. Bonus: why "nice" and "kind" are not the same thing, the pressure of raising emotionally healthy kids, and Amanda receives homework for the final year of her 30s. ✨ If you're an elder millennial trying to build the family you always wished you had, follow us @iymn_podcast on Instagram. You're among friends.