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Feelings Without A Home
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A child doesn’t need perfect parents to learn emotional health, but they do need emotions to be allowed to exist. When a parent is emotionally avoidant, a child’s fear, sadness, or anger can start to feel like something they must hide, manage alone, or act out just to be noticed. That’s where the phrase “feelings without a home” comes from, and it captures the quiet loneliness behind so many behavior problems.
We walk through how emotional regulation is actually built: first through co-regulation, then through internal skills that develop over time. Along the way, I translate…
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