![]() ![]() Have compassion for that younger part of them and practice nonjudgmental acceptance for their experience.” They’re not the adult sitting in front of you during the present discussion, they are experiencing the feelings and using the logic of the child they were when the incident occurred. This is why their emotional reaction may seem incongruent with the intensity of the actual interaction. ![]() ![]() When we accrue emotional wounds, they occur on the right hemisphere of the brain, where we store experiential memories, and when those stored memories are walked through again, the right hemisphere of your child’s brain will likely become engaged, reigniting those old feelings of ‘fight or flight,’ that they might have felt in the moment from the past. “It’s important to have empathy for your adult child if they’re struggling to understand your side of things in a past interaction that hurt them. “Even though your child is now an adult, they’re still your child and when you’re working through issues of the past, you’re likely interacting with a younger part of them that can be emotionally reactive,” says Dean. ![]()
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