Episode Details

The conversation also explores Gen Z parenting, emotional resilience, healthy boundaries, trauma responses, and breaking generational patterns. 

Watch the full conversation to understand how your childhood may still be influencing who you are today and how greater awareness can help change what gets passed on to the next generation. In this episode, Dr. Pal and Dr. Riri explores the hidden impact of childhood trauma, adverse childhood experiences, emotional neglect, parenting styles, family conflicts, bullying, people pleasing, emotional triggers, anxiety, depression and relationship problems.

They discuss how experiences from childhood can influence adult behaviour, emotional regulation, attachment, marriage, and the way we respond to stressful situations.

Chapter Timestamps:

1:52 - Introduction

3:06 - Can Childhood Trauma Affect Your Gut & Mental Health?

5:02 - What Actually Counts as Childhood Trauma?

9:30 - How Childhood Trauma Shapes Adult Behaviour

13:03 - Why Childhood Trauma Affects Relationships

18:18 - Emotional Unavailability in Relationships

20:47 - The 80/20 Parenting Rule

25:28 - People Pleasing & Fear of Saying No

27:49 - Are Gen Z Boundaries Becoming Too Rigid?

30:31 - 4 Parenting Styles Explained

34:01 - How to Regulate Your Nervous System

38:24 - When Do You Actually Need Therapy?

41:14 - How Trauma Memories Get Stored

46:16 - Mother-Daughter & Mother-in-Law Conflicts

51:46 - How to Build Emotional Resilience

58:30 - What Fighting in Front of Kids Does

1:03:36 - Books Written by Dr. Riri