It's not toxic parenting. It’s karmic parenting.

Your parents are souls on a long journey with you. There has been a lot of emotional give-and-take in your history together. It needs healing. Not complaining.

Though yes, parenting can go wrong. It can go terribly wrong at times. And while the world has begun calling it toxic, it is actually karmic. Your parents and you share a long history. It is what neither of you remember. For as souls on a long journey together, in various relationships and equations, you have tightened those knots that keep you together. Perhaps due to excessive emotional dependency and attachment or due to a lot of pending give and take; this is one knot that can get complicated and stifling. It needs to be opened for one’s spiritual growth and evolution.

And no, don’t call parenting toxic. It is purely karmic especially when the equation is not right. The energy exchange of the past may have been dark and heavy and so, no more time must be wasted in analysis or calling names. Even if doing something positive is difficult, at least stop investing any further in this emotional chaos. Let parents operate from their state of consciousness and you raise the bar for yourself. That’s how one is be able to release the other.