Relationships | Mental Health | July Prompt
How Therapy Helped: Learning to Let Go of Childhood Coping Mechanisms
In response to DEP July relationship prompt: “What did you need to hear growing up but didn’t?”
“I wasn’t empty because others abandoned me, but because I had abandoned myself.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night
Did you know that certain behaviors that might have saved you as a child become heavy millstones later on? In adulthood, they will prevent you from becoming whole, and independent.
How so?
Well, it’s simple to explain rationally, but difficult to grasp emotionally.
Dipping into Attachment Theory
It’s impossible not to have been hurt at all when you were a little kid. Many of us needed to hear different things to motivate and support our emotional growth.
For sure, at times, your mother or father unintentionally overlooked your need to connect with them from the core of your genuine experiences.
The experiences we have as a child often seem insignificant to adults, unless they appreciate the child with a sense of curiosity and willingness to connect and…
