Grieving a Lost Childhood

[MakersDozn]

How do you process grief over a lost childhood? More specifically, grief over bonding and nurturing needs that a caregiver should have but didn't provide?

Especially when this unprocessed grief leaves issues from the formative years unresolved, creating a feeling of being emotionally stuck in the pain of the first five years of life?

The healing has to take place. Without this healing, these emotional wounds interfere with healthy functioning in the present, in the outside world. We're stuck, stuck, stuck. For about three years, we've been stuck. And we don't know what to do.

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