Connect Therapy MN Blog
Welcome to Connect Therapy MN Blog, written by Katie Egge, CEN LMFT & Coach. The purpose of this blog is to empower you through providing education and tools to heal from, navigate, and in some cases prevent, Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN).
7 Most Common Types of Invalidations + How to Validate
Blog post that lists 7 most common types of invalidations, how to validate + examples, and a validation hack to ensure you’re response is validating versus invalidating to create emotional connection and safety
10 Common Parenting Phrases That Are Banned In My House (and how to respond instead), Part 2
Blog post by Katie Egge, Therapist & Coach at Connect Therapy MN, that lists part 2: 10 COMMON parenting phrases that are BANNED in her house and why + provides concrete tips on how to respond instead to prevent Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), increase parent-child connection, raise emotionally healthy kids, and prevent estrangement down the road.
10 Common Parenting Phrases That Are Banned In My House (+ How To Respond Instead), Part 1
Blog post written by Katie Egge, LMFT, that lists 5 (of 10) common parenting phrases that are BANNED in my house and why + how to respond instead to foster strong parent-child connection and prevent childhood emotional neglect.
5 Common Parenting Strategies That Lead to a Strained Relationship With Their Adult Child
Blog post by Katie Egge at Connect Therapy MN that lists 5 common parenting strategies that contribute to a strained parent-adult child relationship. Provides concrete tips on what you can do NOW to help PREVENT disconnect and estrangement down the road.
Healing Childhood Emotional Neglect: Why Self-Care Isn’t The Answer
Blog post written by Katie Egge at Connect Therapy MN that provides a definition of community care and explains why it’s an important but often missing component in the treatment of Childhood emotional neglect (CEN)
Emotional Needs: Communication Hack to Get What You Need
Blog post written by Katie Egge at Connect Therapy MN that outlines a communication hack to increase the chances of getting your emotional needs met in your relationships. Free download attached.
Emotional Needs: What Are They, Why We Need Them + 3 Steps to Identify Them)
Blog post about Emotional needs: what they are, why we need them, and 3 steps to help you identify what your emotional needs are. Blog post also provides a FREE download to the Emotional Needs Checklist to help you in this process.
13 Conversation Stoppers Used By Emotionally Neglectful Parents (+ 4 Steps To Handle Them)
Blog post that lists 5 common parenting beliefs that may be holding you back from healing from childhood emotional neglect (CEN).
5 Parenting Beliefs to Eliminate in Order to Heal from Childhood Emotional Neglect
Blog post that lists 5 common parenting beliefs that may be holding you back from healing from childhood emotional neglect (CEN).
9 Important Holiday Reminders to Better Navigate Challenging Relationships With Parents
Blog post with 9 important holiday reminders to better navigate challenging relationships with parents
Childhood Emotional Neglect & the Holidays: 5 Key Tips to Thrive Despite a Difficult Relationship With Your Parents
Blog post with 5 key tips to help you effectively get through the holidays despite having a difficult relationship with your parents.
How Do You Feel? How to Identify Your Feelings
How to identify feelings and the top recommended tool to use to do so! This blog post also covers 6 common reasons why people struggle to identify their feelings, and 7 significant benefits of being able to learn and apply this skill. Finally, this blog provides 3 additional exercises to try to help you build upon this skill.
Childhood Emotional Neglect: What It Is (and Isn’t), Common Causes and Symptoms, and Treatment Options
Blog post that covers everything you need to know about Childhood Emotional Neglect + includes a FREE QUESTIONNAIRE to help you identify if you experienced CEN, and guide you in the process of reparenting yourself.