If you suffer from childhood emotional neglect understanding and trusting your emotions is difficult. This post distills some information on the subject from Jonice Webb’s book that I referred to my post yesterday on being unseen. Hope its helpful to new followers.
The following excerpt from Jonice Webb’s book Running on Empty : Overcoming Your Childhood Emotional Neglect may help you if you struggle with emotions. I know in my own life a lot of problems were caused by not understanding nor fully accepting or trusting my own feelings. An education in a Catholic school taught me certain emotions were really bad, such as anger. Ideally in childhood we should be helped to understand and identify our emotions so we can use the information they give us and respond wisely, but if we were emotionally neglected we never got to build these skills. I hope this excerpt may be of help to others who struggle with understanding and accepting their emotions.
If you were emotionally neglected, chances are you have difficulty with accepting and trusting your feelings. Some emotionally neglected people are completely unaware of the existence of emotions. Others…
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So helpful. Emotional neglect, whether passive or purposeful, is something we don’t openly discuss or acknowledge but is so painful. I actually did some research on this today, found a lame quiz by a so called ‘professional’. Your post has more heart and understanding. ❤️
Thanks so much for that E. A lot of it comes from Jonice Webbs book which personally shone a light on my entire childhood when I read it, benign neglect’s effects can be so invisible and we end up blaming ourselves and feeling we are flawed due to not getting the necessary help with identifying emotions and understanding needs. I hope this will help others as much as it did me. That’s my purpose in reblogging. ❤
So wild. As I was reading your post yesterday I thought it sounded familiar. Ties out I had found Jonice’s website yesterday and taken the CEN quiz! Talk about serendipity. It was very helpful. Thanks again for sharing this. ❤️
Wow its amazing how these interconnections happen ..we’re on a similar page 😊
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