Vida The Podcast
Welcome to the Vida podcast with your hosts Rebecca Espinoza & Shay Frago! Vida gives a voice to the voiceless. We’re giving you a taste of conversations and perspectives meant to expand your mind, open your heart, and ignite your soul. As multicultural women, we believe that everyone deserves equal access to information and resources that can elevate your experience as a human being. We have honest conversations with each other along with diverse leaders, teachers, healers, and creatives from all walks of life to discuss topics ranging from relationships, business, spirituality, and so much more. Regardless of your cultural background, socioeconomic status, or childhood upbringing, there’s a space and a voice for you here. Thanks for joining us we as navigate this vida together!
Vida The Podcast
44. How To Find Empowered Individuality as a Parentified Child Within Enmeshed Families with Rebecca Espinoza.
Being a parentified child is a lot more common than people realize, especially if you come from immigrant lineages. In this solo episode, Rebecca shares her journey with being a parentified child when she was younger and today as an adult. There are some roles that children naturally step into within the family unit when they become adults, but sometimes those roles can create more enmeshment and stifle individuality. Rebecca gives personal insight and guidance on how to have healthy boundaries and live an individualized life as a parentified child so there can be healthier familial dynamics.
This episode explores:
-What it means to be a parentified child.
-The common experience of having parentified children in Latin families.
-Rebecca's lineage's pattern with parentified children.
-Self-soothing as a child when you're parents aren't emotionally or physically available.
-Enmeshment within a family unit, especially when there's trauma present.
-The importance of working with a specialized therapist to navigate familial dynamics.
-How to start practicing boundaries within your family.
-Inner child work for a parentified child.
-How to start empowering the parents so you can step away from certain roles.
-The journey of rewriting generational patterns.
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