Growing Up Sheltered and Dealing with Codependency in Adulthood w/ Zaynab Bajwa

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Most of us have a story or two....ok maybe a whole book series...about how we grew up sheltered.
In Episode 36 of Season 2, we sit down with Zaynab Bajwa to discuss the topic of growing up sheltered and if it leads to codependency. For some of us this could be a triggering topic, seeing that it brings back memories of every time our parents basically said no to anything without a valid explanation.
We've all done it - where we found ourselves standing in front of a mirror practicing our speech to give our parents so that we can convince them to be able to go to the mall with our friends...without adult chaperones, of course. This speech could have won us an Emmy, yet it was received with a flat no from our parents.
We can all go on and on about these stories to prove how sheltered we were but now that we are navigating life as adults, we can't help but to wonder if our upbringing had any long term effects on us.
Zaynab, who is now a mother herself, chats with us about the topic of codependency and how she is choosing to raise her son. Our discussion includes how we each faced the real world after leaving our parents nest, if sheltered children grow into sheltered adults and how can we have more compassion towards our parents for doing the best that they could do at that time.

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