Are We Parenting or Performing?

A question of authenticity.

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“Are you being a parent? Or are you playing a parent?”

This was the question my therapist posed to the group. One of the few times we were allowed to focus what we were learning in session on something other than ourselves.

I commonly heard something like “Don’t worry about being a dad, right now. Focus on you.”…