{"id":10765,"date":"2020-01-17T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=10765"},"modified":"2020-01-17T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T09:39:17","slug":"freedom-from-mom-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=10765","title":{"rendered":"Freedom from Mom and Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship with your parents has had the most shaping influence on your brain and the trajectory of your story.&rdquo; A reputable therapist made this bold statement in a 2018 podcast episode titled &ldquo;Why Your Family of Origin Impacts Your Life More Than Anything Else.&rdquo;[1] Both the quote and the episode title startled me. Do our parents really have that much power over our brains and life stories?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2020\/01\/17\/freedom-from-mom-and-dad\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your relationship with your parents growing up was formative. It shaped you in good ways and bad. But your upbringing is not deterministic. You are not on a fatalistic trajectory determined by the way you were raised by your mom and dad. As a Christian, you are a new creation. You have a new heart and a new Spirit inside you. You have a new Father and a new spiritual family. This family doesn\u2019t replace your family of origin, but rather supplements it and provides the setting in which God can heal the wounds caused by your parents while growing you in healthy and holy ways. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[192,1575,263,1126,1576,1577,101,739,1574,449,712],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-abuse","tag-childhood","tag-children","tag-family","tag-freedom","tag-home","tag-hope","tag-identity","tag-parents","tag-relationships","tag-trauma","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}