This blog explores the emotional experience of growing up with a parent who may have lived with Borderline Personality Disorder or Bipolar Disorder. It breaks down the key differences between the two diagnoses while centering the impact on Black and Brown children who often had to grow up fast in emotionally unstable environments. Readers will learn how these dynamics show up in adulthood and get practical tools to begin healing.

Many Black and Brown millennials and older Gen Z adults are carrying the weight of a childhood they never got to fully experience. This blog explores what it means to grieve not having the parents you needed, being adultified too soon, or growing up in survival mode. It also offers gentle, affirming ways to begin healing and reclaiming the joy you deserved.

Supporting young adults who are working through experiences of infidelity.