Healing the Father Wound: Understanding the Root of Emotional Pain

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What Is the Father Wound? The father wound is a deep emotional injury caused by a strained, neglectful, absent, or abusive relationship with one’s father or father figure. This wound often develops during childhood and adolescence, but its effects can linger well into adulthood—shaping your sense of identity, self-worth, and capacity for connection. Often unrecognised, …

Understanding the Difference Between PTSD and C-PTSD

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When we hear the term PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), many of us think of combat veterans, survivors of natural disasters, or people who’ve endured single traumatic events. However, there is another related and often misunderstood condition called C-PTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). While both involve trauma and can deeply affect a person’s mental health, they …

The Three Stages Of A Loving Relationship

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From the perspectives of psychologists like Jung and Freud, our choice of a life partner is significantly influenced by the formative experiences of our earliest years. As completely dependent children, our primary caregivers – and their inherent imperfections or strengths – left an indelible mark. Whether they were distant, overbearing, or even unkind, or consistently …

Do You Keep Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Partners?

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  An emotionally unavailable person is typically seen as someone who has a fear or block to sharing their emotions, and feelings. They delay making plans, don’t really want a label to the relationship, can’t commit, are inconsistent, they lead you on, or worse. They can be emotionally abusing you (gaslighting, stonewalling, lying). They likely …

PTSD and EMDR

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The word ‘trauma‘ comes from the Greek word for ‘wound’. So trauma is literally a wound in our mental state. Like any physical wound. Post-Traumatic Stress means anything that leaves an emotional residue in the system and interferes with its normal function. The various facets of Post-Traumatic Stress are innumerable; however, we can categorize them …