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…
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,…
What are Boundaries, and How Can They Help?
Boundaries are the limits we set with people and things in our lives. They are an essential part of self-care and are important for creating healthy relationships. You can create your own boundaries to show…
What is Self-Care
Self-care is the foundation that enables us to achieve what we want to in life. It involves how we take care of ourselves through caring for our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. There are some…
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…
How to Heal from Emotional Neglect
You can heal from childhood emotional neglect and the consequences of it. Healing starts with awareness, acceptance and grieving what you lost to the emotional neglect. It continues with learning skills to replace what you…
Did You Experience Emotional Neglect?
Emotional neglect is the absence of critical nurturing interactions. This makes it harder to pinpoint experiences of emotional neglect because these things are subtle and less observable than other types of adverse childhood experiences. There…
Signs of Childhood Emotional Neglect
Childhood emotional neglect is subtle because it is mostly about what didn’t happen rather than what did. This means that you may not identify what you experienced as emotional neglect, and the first indications of…