Such valuable reflections on childhood emotional experiences and their impact on adult relationships and self-worth.
This is definitely true for me. I grew up believing I was defective and not good enough. It did inform all my interactions.  Healing now 🙏

https://medium.com/invisible-illness/how-shame-can-play-a-big-role-in-your-relationship-patterns-63c6d8a57e0d#bypass

How Shame Can Play a Big Role in Your Relationship Patterns

Such valuable reflections on childhood emotional experiences and their impact on adult relationships and self-worth. This is definitely true for me. I grew up believing I was defective and not good enough. It did inform all my interactions.  Healing now 🙏  https://medium.com/invisible-illness/how-shame-can-play-a-big-role-in-your-relationship-patterns-63c6d8a57e0d#bypass

The way the dynamic is in my life is my mental state of always thinking/asking myself "What do they want me to do?" I experience confusion between "What do I want to do versus What do THEY want me to do and what would they approve/disapprove." Asking myself these questions exposes my trauma and appears to be a path toward healing.

Jerome Cody

Todd Smith

the first step is to become aware where we are victims of such developmental distortions... then grieve - allow all those emotions to be felt, sensed and made sense of. So that gradually, in time we can start working our way into building ourselves healthily, being validated on a true and fair basis.

Bobby

Certainly, kindness has a way of creating ripples that extend far beyond what we can see, influencing lives in profound ways. I appreciate this insightful perspective.

Sam Mendoza

Invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.

D J

A group of likeminded people in MEDITATION (mindfulness) are talking about this.