“We can convince ourselves that we’re okay and keep ourselves upright by hanging our crumpling anguish on rigidity and perfectionism and silence, like a wet towel hanging on a rod. We can become closed off, never open to vulnerability and it’s gifts and barely existing, because anything at any moment could threaten that fragile, rigid scaffolding that’s holding up our crumpling selves and keeping us standing.”
Tag: Childhood Emotional Neglect
CEN, childhood emotional neglect, attachment wounds, attunement, healing, therapeutic relationship, connection, emotions, vulnerability, loneliness, emotional needs, depression, anxiety, Jonice Webb, Lindsay Gibson
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Childhood Emotional Neglect and C-PTSD
“Children, especially highly sensitive children, can be wounded in multiple ways: by bad things happening, yes, but also by good things not happening, such as their emotional needs for attunement not being met.”
Dr. Gabor Mate