Key points

We may not fully appreciate the effects of early childhood experiences with our parents on our lives.

It can be an emotional experience to relate as an adult to the way our parents acted toward us in childhood.

Part of letter writing is to free ourselves from the instinct to protect our parents.

There are many tools in the therapist’s toolbox to use as they work with clients. One of them is particularly effective when working with a client who has unresolved issues with their parents. Sometimes we don’t fully appreciate the effects our early childhood experiences regarding our parents have on the rest of our lives. In talk therapy , we might find ourselves thinking for the first time about how the things our parents did and said might be causes of the issues that have br

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