Why You Never Got To Be a Kid: How To Heal When Your Parents Didn’t Parent

Why You Never Got To Be a Kid: How To Heal When Your Parents Didn’t Parent by Lauren Dennelly, Ph.D. ’23, is a guide for readers who grew up caring for their parents or siblings and may still carry the invisible weight of that role, helping them recognize the signs of parentification, understand how it affected their growth and development, and begin to heal. (New Harbinger Publications, 2026)