Embodied Parents. Thriving Children.

Gloria de Gast

Published on: 03/07/2025

This survival adaptation doesn’t stay small. It ripples out through generations. Children who learned to numb and compress their emotions grow up to be adults who: ✨ Struggle to feel at home in their bodies ✨ Overthink, overperform, overgive ✨ Feel constantly anxious or shut down ✨ Long for connection but don’t know how to receive it And when they become parents themselves, they often find it excruciating to witness their child’s raw feelings—because no one ever witnessed theirs. This is not a personal failing. This is an intergenerational inheritance.