I am reblogging this as it contains some of the most important insights of my therapy last year. I realise that staying alone in my own head later in life also made those critical voices gain more power, at least until I could answer them back more realistically. I hope it helps new followers. ❤
Interesting and very empowering therapy session today. Kat and I focused on my incessant running inner monologue of self criticism. She was explaining to me that when a child has no where to go when the emotional climate is empty or hostile they will turn all the bad feelings in on themselves. The lack of support become a self attack – the inner self becomes ‘bad’ and frustration and energy is then turned inward. There is no way for the emotionally immature child to know the parents are failing them so they make it all about themselves.
This would make sense to me of my big smash up at the age of 17, it was expressing how I really felt deep inside being captured in my emotionally barren non present family as well as the deep feelings of emptiness that grew inside and left me hungering for connection with no…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 