Jonice Webb Ph.D.

10 False Lessons Emotionally Neglected Children Learn

1. It's not good to feel deeply.

1. It's not good to feel deeply.

Resentful Love: The Burden of Adult Children of Neglect

Emotionally neglectful parents can leave their adult children feeling resentful of them. But, for many, it's very possible to repair the harm.

Emotionally neglectful parents can leave their adult children feeling resentful of them. But, for many, it's very possible to repair the harm.

4 Major Life Struggles Caused by Childhood Emotional Neglect

Childhood emotional neglect undermines your self-knowledge, self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. But it can all be developed later in life.

Childhood emotional neglect undermines your self-knowledge, self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. But it can all be developed later in life.

How Childhood Emotional Neglect Hurts Adult Friendships

Growing up in a home that discourages your emotions teaches you to hide your feelings from others. Later, as an adult, your friendships pay the price.

Growing up in a home that discourages your emotions teaches you to hide your feelings from others. Later, as an adult, your friendships pay the price.

How Emotional Neglect Can Cause Lifelong Lonely Feelings

Childhood emotional neglect can make you prone to feeling lonely as an adult. Reconnecting with your emotions is the answer.

Childhood emotional neglect can make you prone to feeling lonely as an adult. Reconnecting with your emotions is the answer.

Emotionally Neglected in a Highly Emotional Family

Emotional neglect can happen in different ways and in different types of families. Here's how it happens in a highly emotional one.

Emotional neglect can happen in different ways and in different types of families. Here's how it happens in a highly emotional one.

The Exclusionary Family: Emotional Neglect at Its Worst

Being excluded in any setting has been proven to be immensely harmful. Being excluded by your own family is the most harmful form of exclusion there is.

Being excluded in any setting has been proven to be immensely harmful. Being excluded by your own family is the most harmful form of exclusion there is.

4 Tips and 8 Steps to Get Closer With Your Adult Child

Unintended emotional neglect causes emotional distance between many loving parents and their adult children. Here are defined, actionable steps that you can take.

Unintended emotional neglect causes emotional distance between many loving parents and their adult children. Here are defined, actionable steps that you can take.

Avoiding Conflict Can Be Lethal to Your Self-Worth

Do you find yourself staying silent when you should be speaking up? When you do this, you pay a dear price inside yourself.

Do you find yourself staying silent when you should be speaking up? When you do this, you pay a dear price inside yourself.

An Essential Tool for the Neglected: Identifying Your Feelings

Ever find yourself endlessly scrolling on your phone, eating a whole tub of ice cream, or snapping at an undeserving person? It's probably your unacknowledged emotions at work.

Ever find yourself endlessly scrolling on your phone, eating a whole tub of ice cream, or snapping at an undeserving person? It's probably your unacknowledged emotions at work.