This video discusses emotional neglect, a frequently overlooked aspect of trauma and attachment healing. Heidi Priebe explains how emotional neglect, the absence of proper emotional guidance during childhood, can lead to various challenges in adulthood, such as depression, anxiety, and difficulty making decisions. The video explores the impact of emotional neglect on the connection between inner and outer worlds and provides strategies for healing.
Emotional Neglect's Impact: Emotional neglect, often characterized by a lack of emotional validation and mirroring during childhood, can severely impact a person's ability to understand and regulate their emotions as an adult. It leads to a disconnect between inner emotional experience and outer reality.
Consequences of Neglect: The video details several consequences of emotional neglect in adulthood, including difficulty making decisions (both big and small), toxic shame, a phobia of inner experiences, existential loneliness, chronic self-abandonment, heightened sensitivity to criticism, and impaired understanding of the interaction between inner and outer worlds.
Healing from Emotional Neglect: Healing involves increasing emotional literacy, improving self-attunement, building tolerance for various emotions, finding mentors for emotional support, and developing a give-and-take relationship with one's environment. This includes actively seeking out nourishing environments and relationships.
