Becoming aware of the silent role of Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) in your adult life is no small thing. It’s true.
Once you know it, you cannot go back. You now know what you know, and like the cake that cannot be unbaked, you are changed forever.
Childhood Emotional Neglect: When your parents fail to respond enough to your emotional needs as they raise you.
But just as you cannot go back, it’s also hard to go forward. Even though you realize why you struggle with emptiness or numbness, disconnection and/or lack of fulfillment, it’s natural to assume that since it’s rooted in your childhood, you must be stuck with it forever.
But it is my goal to make sure that every man, woman, and child who is living with CEN learns that this assumption could not be more wrong.
As a psychologist who has treated almost every diagnosis in the book, I have never seen a mental health struggle that is more fixable and has its roots in more areas of one’s life, than CEN. Nor have I seen one that has such a clear and defined path to healing.
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