What does an abandonment wound feel like? Abandonment wounds leave us feeling like we need to hold-on,fearing disconnection, worrying about future disappointments and worrying about potential threats and losses, leaving us feeling perpetually insecure and doubtful in ourselves, in relationships and in ...
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...
When someone is shot with a gun and survives, we don’t tell them they have a “fear of guns.” We call it trauma. The pain lives in the wound. The scars tangible. Abandonment by someone we love is relational injury, like being shot to pieces but with no visible scars. Neuropsycholog...