How to Battle Low Self-Worth with Your Christian Faith
Low self-worth can be a hole that is hard to pull yourself out of, especially when the origins of it started in childhood. Sometimes it can be hard to find the way out. Fortunately, for…
How Childhood Emotional Neglect Can Interfere with Your Relationship with God
Childhood emotional neglect has many consequences that leave you with struggles long into adulthood. One of the areas that can be affected is your ability to form close relationships, including that with God. This doesn’t…
How to Give Effective Safety Messages to Yourself
Safety messages are important to help us cope in a world that often seems dangerous. Safety messages are important to helping overcome a number of conditions like PTSD, anxiety, and chronic pain. What are Safety…
What is Self-Compassion
Self-compassion can be a powerful tool that can help you cope with trauma, chronic pain and other conditions. Although it can be helpful, it can be a struggle for some people, like those with childhood…
How Abusive Parents Use “Honour Your Parents” Against You
I have strived to write this blog post from a biblical perspective as part of a series on Spiritual Abuse supporting my Christian Therapy practice. Unfortunately, people with abusive parents often face additional spiritual abuse…
Why CBT Can Trigger Complex PTSD or Emotional Neglect
People with complex PTSD and histories of emotional neglect often find Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) triggering. When they are trying to heal, they are faced with something that is supposed to be healing that is…
How Your Christian Faith Can Be Used to Treat Emotional Neglect
Emotional neglect can leave you feeling incompetent and unworthy. Still, there are promises in your Christian Faith that can heal the wounds of emotional neglect. You may struggle to feel the blessings in God’s promises,…
The Damage of Emotional Neglect
Experiencing emotional neglect in childhood can be incredibly damaging and leave devastating consequences when our emotional development is neglected. Unfortunately, when there is no physical injury, the damage is often left untreated, and we are…
Are You Ready to Use Neuroplasticity to Find Healing?
Using neuroplasticity to find healing involves practice and specific techniques to change the neural pathways in your brain. You need to be open to the idea that changing neural pathways in your brain will be…
The Emptiness of Emotional Neglect
The most common symptom of childhood emotional neglect is a feeling of emptiness. This feeling of emptiness comes from the emotional needs that were not nurtured. There are things you can do to help fill…