Suffering From Telling Your Parents What They Want to Hear?

We tell our parents what they want to hear. Then we go and we do the opposite. And then that cycle repeats itself in life as we grow older with our friends, with our relationships, with our spouses, our own children. There's almost two faces to our personalities. It makes a lot of sense. We need to have compassion. I never felt that I can be authentic, that I can experience approval for who I really am. I had to sell my parents one version of self, but then go and act based on another version of the self. a split happens and I don't anymore know how to connect the two parts of my personality. The beginning of healing is authenticity. The ability to say, "This is who I am. This is what makes me tick. This is what I'm feeling. This is what I love. This is what makes me feel connected and disconnected. This is when I need you to help me work