Psychological Parents
Who are your psychological parents?
I don’t mean your real parents, meaning your biological parents — but who are the people who psychologically nurtured you? Who mirrored you, mentored you, developed you, encouraged you?
Most people can get wrapped around the axle pretty quickly about their families of origin. There’s usually a lot of emotional baggage around that topic. So it’s fascinating to tease out the differences between the ideal and the real. I explore this notion of “psychological parents” in my Youtube below. It runs 8:43 altogether. (It’s long cuz I like to give you lots to chew on!)
The image is a little dark — I apologize. I’m still getting the hang of this stuff. You might want to watch it full-screen in order to see more detail. Enjoy!
Please share your thoughts…?
I coach people to identify and develop their natural personality strengths in order to maximize their potential.
December 5th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Hmmm, very interesting. I did not have a different psychological parent other than the biological ones.
I have taken from my biological parents the belief that we can’t do that because that’s luxury and we would rather do that and that, because we need that…
I have taken from same parents (this is what I see the psychological part) the ability to take responsibility and make decisions, and move on to the next step.
I got this way to the belief that with perseverance anything, anything that I really WANT and NEEd is POSSIBLE.
Thank you Vicky,
Ioan