Healing from Emotional Neglect: Insights with Kina Penelope and Jacque Blossfield

A lot of people invalidate their own trauma because they're like, well, I wasn't hit. Whenever I was sick, my mom would then kind of pay attention to me all the time. You know, it's the inconsistency that can kind of get a lot of kids. The inconsistency and well, I feel like also it kind of just speaks to how in our culture people aren't necessarily that informed on what emotional needs are you know like it's easy to identify like yeah you were left without food or without medical care or shelter these kind of like basic physical needs but you can't really recognize emotional neglect unless you know what emotional needs are and also how important they are because I feel like emotional needs kind of get almost like minimized a little bit where it's like, oh, you didn't get attention.