Childhood Emotional Neglect

What it Means to Have Good Communication Skills in Your Relationship

Probably the single most important contribution you can make to your marriage is to be aware of your own feelings.
What’s the second most important contribution you can make to your marriage? It’s being aware of your partner’s feelings.
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The Dark Side of Being Raised by Permissive Parents

Were you raised with fewer rules and household responsibilities than many of your friends?
Was there a lack of structure in your childhood home?
Were you somewhat of a behavioral problem at home or school?

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The Highly Sensitive Person In An Emotionally Neglectful Family

The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

In research that has gone on since the late 1990s, psychologists and neuroscientists have found that a fraction of the population is simply "wired" differently than most (Aron, E. & Aron, A.,...

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The 2 Types Of Childhood Emotional Neglect: Active and Passive

Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): Happens when your parents fail to validate and respond to your emotions enough as they raise you.
I have often described Childhood Emotional Neglect as a non-event in the life of a child. That’s because it’s...

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3 Factors That Will Keep You Stuck If You Let Them

All therapists know that people can change. We know this because we have been party to so many remarkable transformations made by so many people.
We see people change their habits, their ways of thinking, work through feelings, and make durable adjustments in...

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5 Ways To Give Your Kids What You Never Had

Few things can make a difference in your parenting as much as healing your emotional neglect.

It’s true! To explain why we must first take a look at your own parents.

Emotional neglect (CEN) happens when your parents, even if they loved and cared about you,...

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Which Type Of Emotionally Neglectful Parents Raised You? 17 Signs to Look For

What kind of parents fail to notice their child’s feelings?

Since this type of parental failure (Childhood Emotional Neglect or CEN) causes significant harm to the child, people naturally assume that emotionally neglectful parents must also be abusive or mean in...

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Shame: The Most Useless Emotion By Far

If you are like most people, you probably do not think of your emotions as useful at all. Except, perhaps, the happy ones that make you feel good.
But what about all the others? Such as hurt, frustration, anxiety, apprehension, sadness...

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5 Important FAQs About Childhood Emotional Neglect: Answered

In all of the interviews and talks I have done about Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), as well as the articles I have written, certain questions keep coming up over and over again. They are excellent questions that are natural for anyone to ask, especially...

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Are You An Externalizer Or An Internalizer? 4 Ways Of Handling Blame

As a psychologist, I have worked with many families, teens, adults, and couples. And in this work, I have noticed a very interesting thing. Every family handles blame differently, and every individual person develops his or her own style of handling blame.

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Childhood Emotional Neglect

What it Means to Have Good Communication Skills in Your Relationship

The Dark Side of Being Raised by Permissive Parents

The Highly Sensitive Person In An Emotionally Neglectful Family

The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

The 2 Types Of Childhood Emotional Neglect: Active and Passive

3 Factors That Will Keep You Stuck If You Let Them

5 Ways To Give Your Kids What You Never Had

Which Type Of Emotionally Neglectful Parents Raised You? 17 Signs to Look For

Shame: The Most Useless Emotion By Far

5 Important FAQs About Childhood Emotional Neglect: Answered

Are You An Externalizer Or An Internalizer? 4 Ways Of Handling Blame

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