Are You Having Sleep Problems During the Pandemic? 5 Likely Reasons
As a psychologist and as a human being, I am receiving this message from every direction and all sides. It’s rampant these days. People are having a hard time sleeping during the COVID-19 pandemic....
View ArticleDon’t Let Survivor’s Guilt Hold You Back From Growth and Healing
What is survivor’s guilt? Google dictionary describes it this way: A condition of persistent mental and emotional stress experienced by someone who has survived an incident in which others died....
View ArticlePassive Emotional Neglect Vs. Active Emotional Invalidation: 5 Examples and 5...
If you had to choose between being passively ignored or actively invalidated, which would you pick? Assume that you cannot choose, “Neither.” And now,...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Couple With Childhood Emotional Neglect: Olive & Oscar...
Childhood Emotional Neglect or CEN does not go away just because you grow up. Being raised in a family that does not address your feelings (or, in other words,...
View ArticleAll About Personal Boundaries: 9 FAQs, 5 Signs, and a Special Technique
Even though the concept of personal boundaries is an incredibly useful one, it’s also rather complicated to understand exactly what “personal boundaries” are. In fact, it’s one of the most common...
View ArticleHow to Talk With Your Spouse About Emotional Neglect: Olive & Oscar Part 2
In a previous blog post, you met Oscar and Olive, a lovely couple who both have Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) who were featured in my book, Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships...
View Article6 Mistakes People With Childhood Emotional Neglect Always Make
Everybody makes mistakes. Literally, everyone does. We make decisions we wish we’d never made, say things we later wish we’d never said. We slip,...
View Article8 Ways COVID-19 is Affecting Adults’ Relationships With Their Parents
COVID-19 is affecting many people in many different ways. But one effect that is shared by most, perhaps virtually all, of us these days is that COVID-19 is making us feel more vulnerable....
View ArticlePsych Central and Childhood Emotional Neglect: A Look Back and Goodbye
It happened last Friday. Suddenly, I received an email letting me know that Psychcentral, the host of my Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) blog for six years, has been sold to Healthline....
View ArticleHow to Use Extra COVID-19 Family Time to Give Your Kids a Leg-Up on Life
One of the most impactful and talked about consequences of the COVID-19 Crisis is that hundreds of thousands of children are spending more time with their siblings and parents....
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