The Place We Find Ourselves

126 When Neglect Is Not Really Neglect

Dec 5, 2022

45:46

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You Risked Reaching Out to That Unknown God

02:10

Is There Ambivalence in Therapy?

03:14

You Wanted Her to Be Your Mother

03:15

Introduction

3min

Is There Ambivalence in Therapy?

3min

What Do You Want From Me? I Don't Want Anything From You

2min

What Do You Want From Me?

2min

Is There a Relationship Between Your Therapy Experience and Your Therapy?

4min

What Was It Like for You as a Girl, Pascal?

2min

You Reached. And You Prayed Like to an Unknown God.

2min

You Risked Reaching Out to That Unknown God

2min

Am I Good Enough?

2min

10.

The Powerlessness of Your Mother's Silence

2min

11.

The Still Face Experiment

4min

12.

I Want a Mother, but I Want My Mother. Yes.

2min

13.

You Wanted Her to Be Your Mother

3min

14.

The Name That She Would Call You, Little Jacques, It Tells the Truth About You

2min

15.

The Slap of the Hanger, the Clothes Hanger

4min

16.

What's the Link Between Self-Harm and Your Therapy?

3min

17.

The Story of the Little Girl

3min

18.

What's Your Passion for Marriage Therapy?

2min

Pascale Wright joins me today to share a very vulnerable story from her childhood. The temptation is to view her story as one of neglect… but it’s not. We cover a lot of ground today, including: Pascale’s ambivalence about longing for care from her therapist and being afraid of his care at the same time, how our family of origin story plays out in the client-therapist relationship, how our family of origin story affects our relationship with God, and the mysteriousness of self-harm.

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