Category: Emotional Neglect

How Keeping a Journal Helps Your Mental Health & Emotional Healing

November 19, 2018

Your mind is full of thoughts, ideas, and memories that long to be shared. But you’re not sure just how much to share with your friends, how fleeting those thoughts are, whether you feel comfortable enough putting them in the mind of someone else. Consider regularly keeping a journal. “In particular, journaling can be especially … More How Keeping a Journal Helps Your Mental Health & Emotional Healing

You Don’t Owe Your Toxic Mother a Card, Candy, or Quality Time on Mother’s Day

May 1, 2017

Whenever you see your mother, she belittles you, emotionally abuses you, treats you like a peasant, and demands to be fawned over like a queen. After you spend time with her, whether in person or on the phone or even reading an email from her, you feel very, very tiny and insignificant. You hurt inside, … More You Don’t Owe Your Toxic Mother a Card, Candy, or Quality Time on Mother’s Day

Emotionally Neglected Children May Feel Like They Are Ghosts

September 30, 2016

“Emotional Neglect is the white space in the family picture; the background rather than the foreground. It is insidious and overlooked while it does its silent damage to people’s lives.” (Dr. Jonice Webb) Editor’s note: I use “he” because “he or she” can interrupt the flow of sentences. But abuse can happen to any gender. … More Emotionally Neglected Children May Feel Like They Are Ghosts