What happens when a child becomes the confidant of their parent?

In this episode of Remothered, Lori returns to a cold winter morning in her childhood — a day in an old wood shed where her father shared a secret no eight-year-old should have to carry. That moment would shape decades of emotional caretaking, silence, and survival.

Through the lens of parentification and Internal Family Systems therapy, Lori explores what happens when the boundaries between parent and child collapse — and what it takes to rebuild them in adulthood.

This is not a story of blame, but of recognition: of the child who held too much, the adult who learned to set it down, and the healing that comes when silence finally breaks.

If you’ve ever carried your family’s secrets, this one’s for you.

💬 Topics: parentification, emotional caretaking, healing the inner child, boundaries, trauma recovery.

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