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Conversations for healing: Navigating the path to connect with emotionally distant parents

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Having parents who are emotionally unavailable can lead to a number of problems later in life. (Brian Lundquist/Unsplashed)
Having parents who are emotionally unavailable can lead to a number of problems later in life. (Brian Lundquist/Unsplashed)

As time progresses and more information becomes available, so do people’s outlook on life.

With the help of therapy and hearing other people’s stories on social media, many have taken time to reflect on their own lives and can pinpoint situations and conditions that once seemed commonplace but are, in fact, not.

Social media has also evolved from a place to share fun and light-hearted content to a platform for people to share their trauma, emotions, and perspectives.

App users worldwide are opening up about things that hampered them as children and continue to haunt them as adults.

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