Healing from Emotional Neglect

Healing from Emotional Neglect

The first step in healing from a history of emotional neglect is understanding that you aren’t alone in this, you aren’t imagining things, and your sense of something being “off” in your life is real and legitimate.

How to Begin?

You begin a process of healing from emotional neglect by increasing your self-awareness which is crucial to refilling your void of emotional validation. You start recognizing and acknowledging the subtle, yet impactful, significant importance that the lack of adequate and appropriate parental emotional involvement has had on your life.

More specifically:

Childhood Review: Looking at the beginnings of your emotional struggles and identifying that you are NOT to blame. Taking note of the patterns and behavior of family interactions in your childhood and how they affected you.

Self-Compassion and Care: Cultivating self-compassion and engaging in self-care practices. You are worth, and worthy of, positive attention! You can take care of yourself and your needs without regrets or shame.

Therapeutic Support: Professional therapy can provide a safe space to explore these issues. Therapists can help individuals understand their past, develop self-compassion, and learn healthier emotional and relational skills.

Conclusion

Emotional neglect and its impact is not a life-long sentence. Although it was a subtle but powerful form of psychological harm in your past, you now have the ability to end your helplessness and fill the emptiness that was left behind. It’s a windy road to be sure (as all subtle things are), but it is not one without a destination, an end, and a reward.

The reward is one of finally feeling fulfilled, secure, confident in yourself, compassionate with yourself and authentically alive. You are a unique human who is special on this earth and you don’t have to live in the shadows of who you truly want to be. With the right support to grow in self-awareness, self-esteem and self-love adults with a history of childhood emotional neglect can heal their wounds and start thriving in a life of their own making that they adore.

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