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When You Recognize Your Parent's Harmful Patterns in Yourself

I lost my temper and yelled at my 7-year-old yesterday and she flinched away from me and I realized I might be scaring her the way my father scared me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery of inherited trauma in one's own parenting creates urgent need for change and healing.

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