Monthly Archives July 2025

The psychologists tell us Emotional neglect Keeps us above the neck. Thinking’s about all you can do No feelings ever permitted through. So here’s the greeting card For those who made life hard. When you were a small tender child With everyone larger you were beguiled. So defenseless and so soft Your divine spirit hovered aloft. Till it was smashed and scattered, By a harsh hand and words that battered. Scaring your needs into hiding The only one left was surviving. Retreat to your head Your young mind said. Follow their rules Or suffer abuse. And so the card says:
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ADHD can cause one to be very distractible. The visual landscape can erode just enough attention so focusing on a task can become impossible to do. The ADHD-er may not realize this. He or she may think they need to have these visual cues to remind them about their tasks, or they may feel happy seeing certain things they own out on view. Applying the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) can add a crucial dimension here. Rather than viewing environmental challenges as simple organizational failures, we can understand them as conflicts between different internal parts, each with legitimate needs
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