Insight for Growth Blog
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi
Insight for Growth Blog provides information and education that leads to self-transformation. It’s about deepening awareness, gaining insight and connection into one's inner world, to create a more balanced and harmonious relationship with yourself. It's for those who have experienced emotional neglect in childhood, want to get to the roots of their suffering and find healing.
Listening Deeply to Yourself
Creating a new relationship with yourself—especially if you've experienced Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN)—is a gradual, deeply personal process. It involves rebuilding trust, developing self-awareness, and nurturing a sense of care and compassion that may have been missing early in life.
Create A New Relationship… With Yourself
You may think that the last person you want to create a new relationship with is yourself. What does that even mean and why would I want to do that? There are so many important reasons why you would want to create a new relationship with yourself. It’s a transformative step that leads to recovery and healing from the consequences of CEN.
At a Crossroads in Life
Are you in that stage of life where you realize you’ve spent years putting others’ needs first, and now you find yourself at the bottom of your own list? You’ve always felt like you had to do it all or be the strong one. Now you’re at a crossroads—feeling stuck, wrestling with questions of identity, self-worth, and purpose.
Insight for Growth
Insight for Growth is a blog about my perspectives and opinions regarding the psychological, emotional, and relational consequences and healing of childhood emotional neglect and complex relational trauma.
What is CEN?
If you’ve never heard of childhood emotional neglect (CEN), CEN is different from physical neglect. It’s virtually invisible, because it’s about what didn’t happen in childhood, when a child doesn’t have enough of their emotional experience acknowledged or validated.
Children should be seen and not heard
Do you remember this adage? It was the tail end of the baby boom years, and children were not considered the center of the parents’ universe. So, what’s the outcome of this parenting approach?