Externalising our inner voices

Writing, blogging and journaling as we all know can be amazing tools for trying to restore and heal our fragmented reality after trauma.  A follower recently drew my attention to a post he had written on trying to work with the internalised negative voices implanted inside him left by parents who were unable to be nurturing.  He quoted a lot of the concept of Melanie Klein ‘bad objects’.  It is interesting as to me I see that my parents had both negative and positive qualities.

My parents were more neglectful than actually downright abusive but there were forms of emotional abuse too.   It takes us so long to become aware of the inner legacy we have been left with after childhood trauma, abuse or neglect.  I was discussing it with my nephew the other day and saying how really we are all coming out of the dark ages emotionally…