How to Mend Broken Relationships

Anna Runkle 3/5/202:06 PM

If you grew up with abuse and neglect in your childhood, chances are good that you’ve suffered more than your share of broken relationships.

Sometimes the break is caused by the other person, but today I want to talk about broken relationships where we played a role in hurting our connection with someone we care about — someone with whom we do want a relationship.

This is one of hardest side effects of trauma in childhood — being close to people, and working through conflicts, can be really fraught with us. A lot of us didn’t have good role models, and because our perception may have been damaged — maybe because there was a lot of denial or neglect by our parents — we sometimes have a hard time discerning when people are hurt, whose fault it is, and how to work it out.

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Robert OlcottMember

The [Blue] Link "Take the Quiz" button doesn't seem to be functioning now, Anna.

3/6/201:04 PM

Carey SippFormer Director of Strategic Partnerships

Thank you, Anna, for all you do to try to help us understand trauma, its impact, how to heal and move forward.

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