My mother called my baby girl chunky. I asked her to stop. She said it again at the baptism. I told myself I'd set a boundary, but I hadn't. Here's what I actually had, and what it cost me to keep it for thirty years.

Today’s 20-somethings are not becoming adults in the same world their parents did. They are trying to find themselves in a louder, faster, more expensive world — while parents are learning that distance is not always rejection. Sometimes, it is the space young adults need to become.

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Every generation carries a wound. Not because something is wrong with them, but because every generation had to adapt to the world it was born into. This article explores what the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Generation Alpha inherited — and what each may be here to heal.

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Every generation has a language. Some speak in duty, some in achievement, some in independence, some in meaning, some in authenticity, and some are growing up inside the language of screens. Before we dismiss another generation, we may need to understand what their world taught them to protect, hide, and survive.