Sven Erlandson’s Badass Counseling Insights & Reflections
Cutting Off Parents and Getting Your Adult Child Back
Cutting off parents is no easy thing. So, if an adult child does so, it’s a sign that something truly toxic that the child can’t fix has affected the relationship with the parents. Getting your adult child back requires your full commitment to their healing and your transformation.
One of the most controversial concepts I teach in the Badass Counseling Method and my book, There’s a Hole in My Love Cup, is that ‘children love parents more than parents love children.’ Upon hearing that, most parents react with some version of, “No way! I’ve never loved anything or anyone as much as I love my children. I’d die for my kids” or some such thing. That, as any parent knows, is no doubt true…