Skip to content

The Healing Nest Blog

Changing old patterns

  • Home
  • About Me
  • What is EFT?
  • What is EDMR?
  • What is CBT?
  • Integrative Therapy
  • Inner Child Healing
  • Blog

Tag: blank slate

Posted on August 13, 2025

We’re Born a Blank Slate – How Life Shapes Who We Become

Were-Born-a-Blank-Slate-–-How-Life-Shapes-Who-We-Become.alt

When we arrive in the world, we are pure potential — curious, open, and ready to connect. Psychologists sometimes call this the blank slate (or tabula rasa). We have no beliefs, no set personality, and no pre-written story. Then life begins to write on that slate. The family we’re born into, the culture that surrounds …

Continue reading “We’re Born a Blank Slate – How Life Shapes Who We Become”

Recent Posts

  • Before You Book Couples Therapy… Take a Look at Yourself First
  • Why Leaving a Toxic Relationship Can Feel Like It Will Break You
  • What If They’re Not Choosing the Person, but the Pattern?
  • Why Do I Keep Ending Up in the Same Relationship?
  • Helping, Rescuing, or Enabling? Understanding the Difference

Categories

  • Addiction
  • Attachment Styles
  • Codependency
  • General
  • Inner Child
  • PTSD/CPTSD
  • Shame
  • Trauma
  • Home
  • About Me
  • What is EFT?
  • What is EDMR?
  • What is CBT?
  • Integrative Therapy
  • Inner Child Healing
Privacy Policy Proudly powered by WordPress