Childhood Coping when you’re Lost
… Unmet needs. Feeling cut off at five years old we need something to help soothe us. The job of our parents is to help us regulate our emotions …
Category: Emotional Awarness
Desire for a Stolen Carefree Childhood
… What should have been. The way our childhood is supposed to be is one where our biggest worries are about how to best spend our free time, how …
Siblings Growing up and Shared Trauma
… When you become an adult you’ll no doubt be involved in many relationships. Some of them intimate where people will “know” you very well, inside out they’ll say. …
How to Heal your Inner Child
… The way to heal your inner child is not to go back and take care of their needs then. There’s no way to do that and even if …
Emotional Disconnect and Vulnerability
… Our feelings of disconnect lead to getting in touch with our vulnerability, which is difficult to tolerate. Young babies especially feel vulnerable and cry often, only to feel …
Dealing with Anxiety
… Lots of anxiety in childhood. Most of it is dealt with in whatever ways (coping) children find to do so and that pattern stays until adulthood. GETTING TO …
Creating your own Inner World
… If you can’t connect to those who you depend on then one of the ways you can cope as a child is to create your own inner world. …
Feeling Emotionally Disconnected
… If your parents were caught in their own emotional webs, leaving them little space to see and nurture you then you most likely felt emotionally disconnected. It’s not …
Needing some Stability in Childhood
… When the adults in room have issues and the environment is chaotic a child will feel that pain. The pain of not being seen, of being disconnected and …
How does one Deal with Childhood Loneliness
… A child can’t. So they usually end up using many different defenses to try to shut away from the emotion. It’s way to difficult to bear for someone …