“I worry about being in therapy. I worry about not being in therapy”+ I never, ever worried about being told that I would be entering Withdrawal Therapy. Farewell Prozac my old friend. I won’t be seeing you again. Because the years are softly creeping. And I’ve stopped my crazy weeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain. I […]
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Dr Jonice Webb’s Top 10 articles about Childhood Emotional Neglect.
By Jonice Webb PhD Childhood Emotional Neglect (which I call CEN for short) is easy to overlook. When a parent fails to respond enough to the feelings of the child, this is something that few will see or notice; least likely of all, the child himself. This is why CEN went so many decades unaddressed. The field of psychology researched, wrote, […]
Childhood Emotional Neglect? Please explain girl! My parents loved me.
Hold on a second Sunshine, before you click away. I can see your finger ready to click on the mouse. Cease and desist. The most common thing I hear from my clients is….ta da… “Nothing was really wrong with my childhood” And I actually do believe you. Bet you weren’t expecting that. Now – quid pro quo – I need you to […]
What kind of parents don’t 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 some way. And it is true that many are. But one of the most surprising things about Childhood Emotional Neglect is that emotionally neglectful parents are usually not […]