childhood
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 5): The Little Grown Up
Turn up at a church youth group hiding scratch marks under your sleeve, or bruises on your arm, and you are treated as a project, someone who needs attention and even too damaged to be considered useful. Turn up as… Continue reading
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Understanding our emotionally immature upbringing and our internal selves (Part 2)
In my last piece I shared a little about how, based on Lindsay Gibsons book, ‘Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents’ , I coped with this by becoming an internaliser as opposed to reacting to it as an externaliser would. In… Continue reading
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Nurturing and loving my internalising self (Part 1)
Of the 20 or so books I’ve read this year, the one that made the most impression on me from a healing and therapeutic perspective was ‘Adult children of Emotionally immature Parents’ by Lindsay Gibson (2015). (As an added note… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 