Resolving Abandonment and Rejection

Do you describe yourself as someone who is a perfectionist, or avoids conflict or a people pleaser?
Do you feel it’s often disappointing to put your trust in others?
Do you find yourself in conflictual relationships or conversely, anti-social or numb?

Abandonment isn’t just due to someone physically leaving, it’s also instigated by a deep lack of attunement to you early on. You’re built to be resilient, but feeling unseen and unheard while dealing with complex scenarios often creates an abandonment wound. Starting in childhood, then re-enacted through adolescent and adult relationships, leading you to develop complex emotional defenses.

Have you experienced any of these common abandonment scenarios?

• Death or loss of a parent
• Parent chronic mental or physical condition
• Parent substance abuse
• Parent chronic absence
• Chaotic living environments
• Sibling chronic issues
• Caregivers unprocessed childhood trauma, resulting in their inconsistency, emotional neglect, rage, competitiveness, engulfment, enmeshment, abuse.

Resolving Abandonment and Rejection is a workbook designed to help you identify abandonment wounds from your early unprocessed childhood trauma. Similar to ebooks, Retrieving My Childhood Self, Feeling Grief, Loss, Anger, Interpreting Trauma Responses, understanding your own experiences doesn’t get rid of them, but attuning to yourself, validating your own life, very much softens the emotional impact.

This book gives you concrete ways to understand stages of child development, your level of reactivity to triggers and create an Anti-Abandonment Plan. Encouraging you to become aware of deep hurts and address yourself with compassion and competence, you deepen your maturity, benefiting yourself, all your relationships, and future generations. Your hard won efforts forever alter your intergenerational legacy of abandonment.

Contents

• Introduction: The Legacy of Abandonment
• Intergenerational Trauma
• Attachment Theory
• Acknowledging Abandonment
• Child Development and Adult Reactivity
• Resources

Estimated read time, 37 minutes