Why Parenting Triggers Feel So Big (And What They’re Really About)

When your child cries, whines, ignores you, talks back, or melts down—you may feel an oversized reaction inside.
That reaction isn’t about your child.
It’s about the younger part of you that was once overwhelmed, dismissed, or shamed.

Triggers are not failures.
They are invitations to heal.
Opportunities life is giving you to reparent yourself and meet your own unfulfilled core childhood needs.

Common Sources of Parenting Triggers:

• Feeling unheard → because you weren’t listened to

• Feeling disrespected → because your boundaries weren’t honored

• Feeling overwhelmed → because you weren’t supported

• Feeling shame → because mistakes weren’t safe in your home

Trigger → Insight → Reparent Response

Every trigger gives you information:
“What part of me still needs care?”

Call To Action:

The Reparenting Course teaches step-by-step tools for transforming triggers into healing.
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