Abandonment has to do with the sense of being separate and alone as an infant or child. Attachment disorders happen when there are severe disruptions in the parent-child bond. There are deep psychic wound in many of us due to relational trauma we experienced from our parents belittling, dismi...
Emotional neglect can be defined as a relationship pattern in whichan individual's affectional needs are consistently disregarded, ignored, invalidated, or unappreciated by a significant other. Do I have abandonment wound? People who suffer from abandonment woundsexperience extreme emotional sensitivity to...
Like opiate recovery, eventually, the pain subsides. New experiences offer us hope for relational healing. We learn to love again. Like a soothing balm over a burn wound, love can ease that pain. The nerve endings calm down. Happiness reappears. Relational trauma changes the brain. We can ...