After last Sunday’s email, there were so many supportive messages—we all have our private wounds. Still, I felt tender, vulnerable. Last night, Monday night, getting in bed, I felt the discomfort of...

Might as well finish both parts of the story.   The next time Mom got the stool and the shampoo, I took the upper hand. “Don’t do it like last time.” She looked at me blankly. “Remember? When...

There’s something I’ve debated bringing up, but there’s a point I want to make and this is a good example. We’ve been talking about emotional neglect. Sometimes this is coupled with physical abuse,...

On Day 4 of Dan Robert’s InsightTimer course, we learn about the nervous system. During an explanation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system, Roberts says,...

Dan Roberts says that the most common schema he sees in his Internal Family Systems practice is Emotional Deprivation. This schema develops when parents or caregivers provided for physical needs but...

Who knows what happened to Roxie? When I got her, she was so afraid of people and dogs she would go into attack mode. Her motto: “I’ll hurt your before you can hurt me.” She snapped at Ken’s hand...