#256: How Childhood Emotional Neglect Sparks Addictive Relationships

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Black Girls Heal, we’re going to be talking about something really deep today: how what happened to us as kids can mess with our love lives BIG TIME. We're diving into childhood emotional neglect and how it can lead to those addictive relationships we sometimes find ourselves in.

It's wild how many of us deal with the fallout from not feeling seen or heard as kids. It's like this sneaky little pattern that shows up in our adult lives, making us chase love in all the wrong places. We'll break down what emotional neglect actually looks like, how it sticks with us, and how it sparks addictive relationships.

Don't worry! This episode isn't just about the problem. We're gonna talk about healing too. It's all about understanding where this stuff comes from so we can start breaking those unhealthy patterns and building the love we deserve.

In this episode, we cover…

00:17 What is childhood emotional neglect?
01:47 The impact of childhood emotional neglect on relationships
03:08 What is love addiction?
03:32 Signs of emotional neglect in your life
06:51 How to break the cycle of emotional neglect
09:03 The connection between neglect and love addiction
12:03 Steps to overcome love addiction
24:00 Why you should heal with a community

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0:00.0	My job is to somehow make them curious enough or persuade them by Hooker Crow to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there just to bring it out.
0:21.0	This is what compels me to compel them and I will do it by whatever
0:26.4	means necessary.
0:28.4	Welcome to the Black Girls Hill podcast where we talk about healing our intimacy disorders,
0:34.3	unresolved trauma, and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves, and then
0:38.6	others. Every episode we will talk about advice you can apply today to break unhealthy patterns and
0:44.8	grow in your self-worth. I'm She Nel Lachete, Love Edition coach and trauma specialist.
0:50.0	Let's begin.
0:58.0	Hello, hello and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls Heel. I hope that you are having a wonderful day,
1:00.0	that you are shining, that you are thriving,
1:02.0	and that you are living your best life today.
1:04.4	And I hope that this podcast episode helps you get a little bit closer to the life that you want
1:09.5	and that you desire. So today's episode, we are talking about the impact of childhood
1:14.0	emotional neglect and how it leads to the behaviors of love addiction. So
1:18.4	childhood emotional neglect is a type of childhood trauma. It is the type of trauma that I see in 100% of the people that I serve.
1:26.5	No matter whether or not you are connected to love addiction, love avoidance, if you just have
1:31.5	little self-esteem, anxiety, depression that is caused by
1:35.1	the traumas that you have gone through, all the common denominator across the
1:39.2	board is childhood emotional neglect and it is so important to know what this is because I think what
1:45.6	trips up a lot of people when it comes to breaking down the root causes of
1:49.6	why they may have repeated relationship issues and struggles with low self-esteem
1:53.8	and they're doing all the right things
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