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🗓️ 18 January 2025
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Meet Nate: Confronting Parentification and People-Pleasing...
Growing up with an absent father and a parentifying mother amidst the backdrop of divorce, Nate was often the glue holding his fragmented family together. From a young age, the responsibilities thrust upon him shaped his early identity as the hero child, tasked with more than a child should bear. It wasn’t until a defining argument with his wife that Nate recognized the unsustainable nature of his people-pleasing tendencies, which were deeply rooted in his childhood experiences.
Join us on this week's Shitshow Saturday to hear Nate's compelling journey from validation-seeking in his professional life to advocating for mental health in his leadership roles. Discover how understanding his role as an adult child has led Nate to healthier boundaries and a more fulfilling life.
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0:00.0 | Okay, shit, shit, shit, shit show. It's a fucking shit show. Okay, well, welcome back to |
0:17.7 | shit show Saturday. We have the shit show, Nate, and I have say, you really just ripped the Band-Aid off, dude. |
0:24.4 | You threw yourself in. |
0:25.9 | I appreciate it. |
0:27.1 | Yeah, it's been a fun ride. |
0:28.9 | I think this is, I've been working through some of these things for probably the last two, three years within, with a lot of vigor. |
0:36.6 | And it's sort of like, it just sort of felt |
0:38.8 | easy jumping in with the group that's here and just sort of dealing with, dealing with |
0:44.1 | things the way that we have. I had sort of primed myself a little bit with a prior group I was in |
0:49.4 | and with a, with a therapist who I was seeing at the time. But it just sort of, it just felt like jumping in with old friends, even though we had known each other for like two minutes. |
1:01.3 | Were you going to ACA meetings? |
1:03.9 | No, I wasn't. I was, I actually found you through the place I was going before. So I was in calling home for a while. |
1:11.9 | And Whitney interviewed you. |
1:14.5 | And then I started listening to your podcast from that. |
1:17.6 | And it's sort of like, this makes a whole lot more sense over here than what I was doing. |
1:22.2 | And it's sort of like the voyage you take to get from one place to another is really sort of interesting. |
1:27.9 | And that day in the dots, yeah. |
1:29.1 | I don't think I knew that there was a community with calling home. |
1:32.3 | What is someone specifically focused on? |
1:34.3 | It is primarily focused on adult children of immature parents. |
1:39.4 | Okay. |
1:40.3 | So sort of I approached my evaluations and getting on this voyage by sort of looking at parental immaturity. |
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