The Couples Therapist Couch: 113: Shane Birkel on the Impact of Childhood Neglect on Relationships (opens in new tab)

We often have clients who are shut down emotionally and don't understand why. It is difficult for them to access their emotions. Most of the time this is due to living in a family where emotional expression either wasn't modeled or encouraged, or where it was actively shut down. This emotional neglect is abusive and shaming to children, but most people think that it was just "normal" which can be part of what makes it so difficult to work with. The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for C...