LH: Chapter Eight

A small excerpt from chapter 8,

The Residue of Tauma: Learned Helpplessness

A child depends on their parents for guidance, stability, to the foundation for self-efficacy. When parents are immature because of their own trauma, or other reasons, they failed to provide the consistent support and modeling that a child needs to develop competence and independence. As adult children of immature parents can struggle to reconcile unmet needs while meeting the demands of adulthood. Parent’s can be immature emotionally, mentally, behaviorally, or all of them. I am not blaming parents in this chapter it is an exploration of ways immature parenting fosters learned helplessness, the unique challenges faced by these adult children of immature parents, and strategies for reclaiming agency and breaking free from Learned Helplessness.