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Parenting a Parent Who Does Not Hear or See You, Is Not Born From a Malicious Intent
Being a child of this archetype, having a parent who does not hear or see you can look like the diminishing of your own self expression. This lack of feeling seen or heard then leads to the strengthening of a belief that you're unworthy or unlovable. Some when we're talking about shut down, we're actually talking about a nervous system state which closes us. We are not receptive to the people around us. Does it matter that they're our child? She did believe she was showing up for me to to love me, to support me. And yet she was unable to.