What Is Remothering, and Why Is it Important? - Annie Wright LMFT
We form our patterns, beliefs, and ways of being in the world in response to the environment and the relationships around us.
Sometimes this may mean being wounded because of our early environment and relationships, including those with our father and/or mother.
Specifically, wounds from our relationship with our mother can often arise when we have/had a mother in our childhood and adolescence who couldn’t meet most (or any) of our mental, emotional, or physical needs.
How to Deal With Your Childhood Trauma As an Adult - Rachel Fairbank
Recovering from childhood adversity is no easy feat—but these strategies can help.
Why Your Well-Meaning Defenses Are in Over Their Heads - Leon F Seltzer Ph.D.
Have you ever thought of your defense mechanisms as “parentified children”?
People experience defense mechanisms as life-saving when they are children, for they helped lessen scary feelings of insecurity and instability.
In adulthood, outdated, habitual defenses often continue to take over and sabotage people in ways that they may not even be aware of.
Identifying one's defenses and actually talking to them, updating them about one's physical and mental development, can help change them.
Why Your Well-Meaning Defenses Are in Over Their Heads - Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D.
People experience defense mechanisms as life-saving when they are children, for they helped lessen scary feelings of insecurity and instability.
In adulthood, outdated, habitual defenses often continue to take over and sabotage people in ways that they may not even be aware of.
Identifying one's defenses and actually talking to them, updating them about one's physical and mental development, can help change them.