
07/27/2025
They loved you. But you still learned to shrink.
To stay quiet.
To take care of them.
To handle hard things alone because asking for help felt like too much.
This is what emotional neglect can look like:
✅ You weren’t hit.
✅ You had food on the table.
✅ You knew they loved you.
But…
❌ They didn’t ask how you felt.
❌ You didn’t feel safe showing pain.
❌ You learned that being loved meant not being a burden.
That belief doesn’t go away on its own.
It follows you into adulthood, into friendships, into romantic relationships…
Until love starts to feel like silence.
Until connection starts to feel like self-abandonment.
But here’s the thing:
Your needs aren’t a burden.
Your feelings aren’t too much.
Your healing doesn’t require anyone else to go back and do it differently.
This is the kind of work I do with Brainspotting therapy.
We go beneath the logic—into the body—where those beliefs still live.
Not to blame the past, but to help you finally feel safe being seen, felt, and heard.
📍California-based LMFT
🧠 Specializing in Brainspotting for emotional wounds, childhood trauma & nervous system healing
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