Concepts
- Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN)
- The experience of growing up in a household where a child's emotional responses are consistently ignored, minimized, or dismissed — leaving a lasting deficit in self-awareness, self-care, and emotional connection.
- Twelve Ways to End Up Empty
- Webb's taxonomy of parenting styles that can produce CEN even in outwardly functional families, ranging from narcissistic and authoritarian to well-meaning but emotionally unavailable.
- Alexithymia
- Difficulty identifying and describing one's own emotions, a common consequence of CEN in which the internal emotional vocabulary simply was not developed in childhood.
- Counter-Dependency
- A CEN-driven pattern of refusing to need or rely on others — a protective adaptation to early emotional unavailability that masquerades as self-sufficiency while creating profound isolation.
- Ending the Cycle
- The practice of becoming the emotionally attuned parent to your own children that you did not have — breaking the intergenerational transmission of emotional neglect through conscious attention.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 - Why Wasn't the Tank Filled?
- Chapter 2 - Twelve Ways to End Up Empty
- Chapter 3 - The Neglected Child, All Grown Up
- Chapter 4 - Cognitive Secrets
- Chapter 5 - How Change Happens
- Chapter 6 - Why Feelings Matter and What to Do with Them
- Chapter 7 - Self-Care
- Chapter 8 - Ending the Cycle - Giving Your Child What You Never Got
- Chapter 9 - For the Therapist
Rating
Topics
- Childhood Emotional Neglect, Narcissistic Parent, Authoritarian Parent, Permissive Parent, Bereaved Parent, Addicted Parent, Depressed Parent, Workaholic Parent, Achievement Parent, Sociopathic Parent, Child as Parent, Neglected Parent, Counter Dependency, Self-Blame, Fatal Flaw, Naming Feelings, No Bad Emotion, Nurture Yourself, Self-Disipline, Self-Soothing, Self-Compassion, Self-Nurturing, Self-Acceptance, Reparenting, Emotional Intelligence, Alexithymia
Published
- October 1, 2012
Publisher
- Morgan James Publishing