28 Quotes About Emotional-neglect

I thought that the world did not want me, but the truth was that I did not want myself.

Miracles can be found in the most unlikely of places. I found the light not by swimming to the surface, but by letting myself drown in the seas of my deepest fears. Not by eradicating the dark, but by embracing it. I realized that there is no such a thing as darkness, only light and the absence of it. It is there in the light of unconditional love that I finally found the freedom I had been searching for so long.

a mind is only as limitedas it's capacity toembrace his greatest enemy

deity momentsare monumentalbut not for a mortalso my devotedask of youto never beg for any manyou are your own wildflowerwild and freein your devotion tofinally, only youand you forevermore

and you will realizethat fear is a welcome friend at this tableit has been waiting to tell its story for such a long timeand for those who chooseto listen, I promisethat it will bethe most wonderful of tales you will have ever heard

come and fall apart with menot to fall together,but to usher in our own momentof infinity

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

Parents who do not give their children clear messages that they are loved, whether by words or appropriate displays of affection, such as being held, cuddled, hugged, kissed, having hands shaken, and being patted on the back, are not meeting their sons' and daughters' emotional needs.

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others’) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis