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Self-Betrayal: Neglecting Your Needs

ByJennifer Nurick
Self-Betrayal: Neglecting Your Needs When you have grown up in an environment where your needs were not met or ignored, you learned to disconnect from them. As an adult, this has created one of two situations: You don’t know what you need You know what you need, but you push it down and ignore it, believing you are not as important as the people around you.

Being scared of your needs is NORMAL when you have grown up in an environment where it was not okay or safe to ask for your needs to be met.

Know that you CAN shift this pattern. You CAN reconnect to your needs and create boundaries in your life. 

If you recognise this behaviour, tomorrow’s post will provide tips on shifting this pattern and building self-trust. 

Love, Jen

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Jennifer Nurick is a Master's-qualified Clinical Psychotherapist, attachment and trauma therapist and couples therapist with over 20 years in private practice. She helps adults and couples heal anxious and avoidant attachment, childhood trauma and recurring relationship patterns, drawing on IFS, EMDR and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Jennifer is the author of Heal Your Anxious Attachment (New Harbinger), host of the Psychotherapy Central Podcast and founder of Psychotherapy Central.

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