Children of dysfunctional families come to believe they are responsible for their parents' problems. As a result they develop low self-esteem. Carl Benedict, Counselor What types of dysfunctional …
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Why did we, as children, adopt dysfunctional family roles in our family? In dysfunctional families the roles we took on tended to be unhealthy because of alcohol or drug addiction, physical or …
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Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody …
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What is required for healing emotional abuse which damages children's esteem? Previously, I gave the 1st three tips 1. Emotional Repression - Feel and express your feelings in healthy ways. 2. …
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Emotional abuse includes verbal violence and the lack of positive emotional support. Healing emotional abuse - how do you ever heal it? Emotional abuse includes verbal violence and the lack of …
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Did you know in countries around the world up to 36% of girls and 29% of boys have suffered child sexual abuse (The 57th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights 2001)? This works out to about 1 …
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What is our wounded inner child? It is all the fearful, hurt, neglected, and vulnerable parts of our psyche, as a young child, which have separated from our being because of trauma or for survival. …
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From my experience of teaching self-esteem and recovery from codependency to teen girls for five years, more than 70 percent of American homes harbor codependent families. Thus, a codependent, …
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Dysfunctional families are the product of an emotionally dishonest, shame based, patriarchal society based upon beliefs that do not support loving self. Robert Burney A dysfunctional family kills …
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Without knowing, in our families we wanted to maintain balance of some kind. We unconsciously adopted certain dysfunctional family roles created by rules such as “don’t talk about the family …
