Signs of Childhood Abuse and How to Start Healing Those Wounds
Childhood neglect by definition is a form of child abuse. It consists of a deficit in meeting a child’s basic needs including adequate health care, supervision, clothing, nutrition and housing as well as physical, emotional, social, educational and safety needs.
Emotional neglect is a parent’s failure to notice, attend to, or respond appropriately to a child’s feelings. Many parents unintentionally continue a pattern of emotional neglect as they were not appropriately supported themselves when they were children.
Suffered from emotional neglect include:
There are many things you can do to start healing these wounds. Here are some places to start:
Practicing self-compassion: Begin cultivating a kind inner voice and a sense of worthiness. Research suggests that treating oneself kindly, rather than criticizing oneself, leads to greater willpower and an ability to bounce back from failure more easily. Luckily, it’s a skill that can be taught and cultivated over time.
Seek support: Working with a therapist or coach one-on-one is another great way to begin healing from childhood pain. While it may feel uncomfortable to revisit painful memories or unearth the past, this is the best way to release old pain.
What you resist, persists: Ignoring your pain does not make it go away. Facing it head on, allowing yourself to feel it while having compassion for your pain and your own inner child is one of the best ways to move forward.
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Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse, Worse! You can heal broken bones: you can’t heal a broken mind.
