Finding the courage to truly be yourself
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- We all want to feel free to be our true selves and live in a way that feel authentic. I want to live my life to the fullest and I imagine you do as well. Despite this, we can get sidetracked by demands and expectations that throw us off our true gifts and passions. Instead we might follow the preferences and aspirations that society, family, and friends have for us, rather than what we truly want for ourselves. Breaking free from self-doubt and discovering what it is that you truly want from life, demands that you grow beyond the obstacles that undermine personal goals, hopes and dreams.
Dr. Lyndsay Gibson, Psychologist and author of “Who You Were Meant to Be: A Guide to Finding or Recovering Your Life's Purpose”. Dr. Gibson utilizes her years of clinical knowledge to show us what gets in the way of our true unfolding. We will reflect on how to free ourselves from misguided guilt and misplaced loyalty that confuses loving others with sacrificing ourselves and betraying our true life path.
Listen to the conversation with Dr. Lindsay Gibson as we explore ways to reclaim your true path, especially if you have suffered from the effects of emotionally immature parents. We discuss how to uncover your life’s purpose and who you were truly meant to be.
Dr. Lindsay Gibson is a clinical psychologist, author, and assistant professor with a passion for human conflict and helping others develop long-lasting, meaningful relationships. Dr. Gibson has written several books including her best-selling novel “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents”. It has sold over 100,000 copies, been translated into 14 languages, and has helped thousands of people reverse their toxic psychological legacy and reclaim their lives.
In her book, Dr. Gibson provides real life examples from her therapy practice and a variety of methods to get you thinking about what constitutes individual happiness and how to chart a course to get there. Dr. Gibson helps her readers to free themselves from doubt and defeat and find out what you really want to do with your life, utilizing inner guidance to find personal and energizing life purpose. Her book helps address feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and the common fears that often bring self-actualization to a hault while offering practical advice for those who are reluctant to put themselves first in their own lives.
If you are interested in more information about how you can recover from emotionally immature parents, break out of old habits, forge a new path to discover or recover our true purpose in life and become the people we want to be, this talk is for you.
Dr. Gibson’s book “Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: tinyurl.com/mw... Purchase Dr. Gibson’s book “Who You Were Meant to Be: A Guide to Finding or Recovering Your Life's Purpose”: www.amazon.ca/...
About Dr. Gibson: catalogue.pesi...
4 signs that a parent is emotionally immature: www.psychology...
Accessing Emotional Immaturity (questionnaires and resources): curioushealing....
Tips for finding your life’s purpose: Accessing Emotional Immaturity (questionnaires and resources): www.psychology...
I’m reading Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents and it’s being a level of clarity I have not experienced. Thank you Dr Gibson!!
I am so grateful for her perspective. I feel like my growth was at a plateau for quite a while until I found her.
What a great convo . Loved every second of it. Its so enlightening to be aware of how my EIP conditioned me and the consequences of it all. So good to know im not crazy all by my choosing.😅
5:00 Dr. Gibson says hello
7:41 still small voice inside
7:53 comes with a lot of energy
9:34 impulses from true self
26:34 are we looking for permission?
29:13 claim joy now
30:46 this is your time. Do it. Say yes
32:29 establish boundaries
38:52 if no one disapproved of you, what would you do that would be pleasurable
49:11 familiarity is part of bonding
49:55 they marry people who continue family dynamics
53:02 Marie Differentiation Scale
55:46 know what youre comfortable and not comfortable with
58:26 set the boundary in any way that works for you
59:00 repeat the boundary as often as needed
Wow thank you so much this podcast, this open my eyes so much!!!💜
1:00:22 what do you really want? Real motivator?
If one thinks about it, the major tendency of commercials reflect emotionally immature people; the mindlessly conformist, "group-think" types ectsatically engaging in consumption. Same for sitcoms, movies, and dramas--they all reflect the extremely narrow range of this type of individual--the american!
The fertile soil for fascism ALA (american type) "democracy " !!!
Good observation, love it!
Yep…I’ve absolutely thought this.
If you think in simplistic absolutes, you’re much easier to be triggered into things emotionally.
Also, when brain scans were done on certain political types…those who were more likely to vote for an authoritarian (veering fascist) leader) have a larger R amygdala, which indicates they will react from threat, fear based, more quickly, more often, more intensely. While this isn’t cut/dry, all the time, it is interesting!
Those who are less likely to vote in that way, have larger grey matter in the anterior cingulate cortex (which will help rein in impulse, be more empathetic etc).
So…that also explains the divide that is near impossible to close. If you have to accommodate someone who thinks emotionally and impulsively, struggles with holding space for more/new info, you are accommodating for their profound limitations.
We have people with emotionally maturity of young teens (or toddlers) who get to vote!!
Thank you