By Michael David Lawrience
1. Emotional Repression – Feel and express your feelings in healthy ways.
2. Emotional Violence – Heal your own inner child.
3. Parents Use Children to
Satisfy Their Own Needs – Strengthen your self-esteem.
Emotional abuse includes
verbal violence and the lack of positive emotional support. Abusers control,
criticize, demean, ignore, make children less then, powerless, and victims.
So how does emotional abuse
damage a child’s self-esteem?
Part 2 gives the remaining four tips:
4. Parents Lacking Ability to Meet Dependency Needs
4. Parents Lacking Ability to Meet Dependency Needs
As young children we need physical touch and emotional
warmth from our parents. As children we depend on this to develop trust,
connection, and a strong sense of self, core self-esteem.
My mother received little
touch and warmth for her Russian parents. In addition, her mother died when my
mother was still young. My mother then became the caretaker mom for her dad and
six other siblings. As I mentioned before I also had an emotionally absent father.
I grew up mistrusting others
and most of all mistrusting myself. I lacked confidence. I always wanted to
know how to do any new project before I did it, figure it out first.
Tip: Learn how to strengthen your self-esteem over time.
See The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi.
5. Feelings Denied
