Growth Guilt

Healing doesn’t go backwards. Only forward. This means that any generational stronghold that is broken won’t go to your children, or their children. Great news, right? But what about our parents? What happens when they keep seeing you grow and change, and overcome all of these things, and they are exactly where they’ve always been? Almost like we’re leaving them behind. Queue in the growth guilt. What do we do when they still can’t see the light? When they can’t see that it takes work for you to be where you are? When they don’t realize that they’re stuck because they choose to be stuck? Not only don’t they tend to misunderstand you and why you’re changing and why you can’t just stay the same, but it’s almost like you’re betraying them by going forward. It isn’t a betrayal on your part to move forward and do better. Afterall, isn’t that what they’ve wanted for you to begin with? So why does it feel like it is?