(Ep. 53) Healing the Parent/Child Relationship

What if you could heal the wound between you and your parent — or your child — even if they never change, and even if they're no longer here?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise turn to a relationship almost everyone carries some pain around: parent and child. Laura shares her heart for this one — she's watched so many people, parent and grown child alike, decide the relationship is simply too painful and cut each other off, often for valid reasons, only to pass the same disconnection down another generation. Her hope isn't necessarily reconciliation, but healing: tending the childhood-level wound underneath, whether the other person ever takes part.Laura and Brian are clear that this pain isn't only about the dramatic or illegal — far more often it's emotional neglect: a parent who couldn't fully accept, see, or hear their child. And it connects all of us, because everyone has been someone's child.They explore why superficial apologies don't hold (the pain resurfaces every holiday because the wound was never comforted), why we meet best at our child selves ("two five-year-olds arguing in the kitchen"), how healing gives us new eyes to finally see the good our parents could give, and a gentle counter to cut-everyone-off culture — every parent is a little unhealthy, and distance isn't the only path. The freeing anchor throughout: your healing is never contingent on the other person's. It's not about them changing. It starts and can be completed with you.In this episode: 🔹 Why you can heal this relationship even if your parent won't change — or is no longer alive 🔹 Emotional neglect, not just abuse: the quiet wound of not being accepted, seen, or heard 🔹 Why superficial apologies fail — and why the pain floods back every holiday 🔹 Meeting at the child self: how "two five-year-olds in the kitchen" reframes the fight 🔹 A gentler alternative to cutting family off — and why your healing doesn't depend on theirs📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.com https://lauraduncan.com