Morgan's note: This is an important article about Childhood Emotional Neglect, how deeply it damages, and how it can be healed.
Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): An incredibly subtle, unmemorable, yet deceptively powerful childhood experience that happens when your parents fail to respond enough to your emotional needs.
Growing up in a household that under-responds to your emotions (CEN) leaves its footprint on you. It leaves you blocked from your richest resource from within: your feelings. If you who grew up this way you are unlikely to recall the Emotional Neglect happening, but you nevertheless now live with its effects.
As a therapist, I have walked hundreds of people through the process of recovering from their Childhood Emotional Neglect, and continue to do so. During this incredibly rewarding process, I noticed a very important, key aspect of Childhood Emotional Neglect.
It robs your joy.
On top of it all, CEN is so silent and pernicious that you don’t even realize it is happening.
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