One of our own interviewing one of our own!

Doctoral student Gabriella Gravely interviews one of our very own VCPCP alums, Dr. Dominique Blanchette, about The Black Girl Doctor clinical practice.

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Recent publication by Lindsay Gibson (Class of 1983): Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Book information: Are you one of the countless people who grew up with emotionally immature parents? If your parent's needs came first, you may still recall painful moments of childhood emotional neglect, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of maturity in an effort to compensate for your parents’ behavior. And although you likely cultivated strengths such as self-reliance and independence along the way—strengths that have served you well as an adult—having to be the emotionally mature person in your relationship with your parent is confusing and exhausting. Emotionally immature parents take a toll on their children. Emotional loneliness is often the result of having parents who were so wrapped up in their own issues they neglected your needs for connection and attention, and even expected you to make them feel better.

You can free yourself from the depleting role of catering to the needs of the emotionally immature. Once you understand how these immature people function, you will no longer feel guilty or ashamed for not helping them more. You will learn how to reconnect with your true self while interacting with others in ways that keep you from being emotionally drained.

Visit drlindsaygibson.com for additional information about her and her first book, Who You Were Meant To Be.