Tag: scapegoat child

• You Did Not Deserve That

  

  from an IFS (Internal Family Systems) session with one of my teenage parts Self-love used to be dangerous. It was much safer to believe I was worthless, to shrink, to erase myself completely. I look at the 14-year-old part of me, standing in my mind’s eye; my own frizzy hair, that green striped shirt I…

  Taylor Blanchard

  September 1, 2022

  emotional abuse, IFS, toxic shame

  emotional abuse, IFS, internal family systems, mental health, scapegoat child, shame, toxic shame, trauma recovery, trauma survivor