161 - Abandonment Trauma Expert Susan Anderson on Rejection and Equating Love with Insecurity
Adult Child
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The QUEEN of Abandonment Trauma Susan Anderson returns to the pod, With more than 30 years of clinical experience, she has helped tens of thousands overcome abandonment trauma and its aftermath of self sabotaging patterns.
In today's episode, we discuss...
- Rejection trauma and the impact of being ostracized by your peers
- The role of positive narcissism and defensive abandonment in our social interactions and self-perception
- The process of internalizing our emotional responses to abandonment
- How we learn to equate love with insecurity in our romantic relationships
- Learning how to separate “the big S Self” from our inner child.
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| 0:00.0 | Abandonment is a fear that we will be left alone forever with no one to protect us. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, now. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, what you're holding on. |
| 0:15.0 | What you're holding on to, |
| 0:19.0 | just let it all go. |
| 0:22.0 | What's making you slow now? |
| 0:24.0 | Let it all go. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome back to adult child, |
| 0:28.0 | where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, my dear shichows. For any new |
| 0:37.6 | listeners, shichow is a term of endearment around here. It is of the highest honor. You know I used to say |
| 0:46.4 | former shit show but recovering shit show is more appropriate. You know I don't ever want to not have that shit show card |
| 0:56.3 | available to me. Like the times that I've grown the most have been from the shit shows, right? The shit shows have been the catalyst to, you know, the growth and healing in my life. So I'm open to some |
| 1:10.0 | more shit shows because I still want to grow, but can we please just not have them be as |
| 1:13.9 | excruciatingly painful as the shit shows I have endured in the past. |
| 1:19.1 | So today we are diving deep with abandonment, trauma, guru, Susan Anderson. |
| 1:26.5 | This is her third time on the pod. |
| 1:28.8 | Go listen to her first two episodes. |
| 1:30.7 | I'll put them in the show notes. |
| 1:32.5 | And I was thinking about our first interview together. |
| 1:35.3 | I was on the floor in my closet, next to my cat's litter box, |
| 1:39.4 | and I knew that I knew within moments of her hopping on Zoom that we were going to get on well because I made some sort of comment about how it looked like she was sitting on a toilet seat. |
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