30/09/2025
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To be seen, emotionally & intellectually attuned to, known, and validated is a human need.
It's a need that fosters our growth and development, and our ability to relate securely to ourselves, and others in relationships.
And when we don't get this need met at least somewhat consistently in childhood and adolescence, we struggle, suffer, and adapt.
We develop strategies.
Some develop walls where they don't even bother trying â
they retreat, not believing anyone is actually interested in knowing them.
Others find themselves feeling incredibly anxious if someone misunderstands them, or feel rejected if someone doesn't reflect their emotions back.
So they over-explain, reaching for external validation so they can feel calm inside again.
For those who didn't receive mirroring and attunement, it can be really hard to trust their own feelings.
They become "external processors,"
and find it hard to feel like their inner world is "real" until someone validates it or mirrors back to them in a safe way.
If this sounds like you, you don't act this way because you're broken,
it's because humans develop in relationship.
To develop secure attachment, we need to be seen, known, understood, and validated to learn how to be able to do that ourselves.
To learn how to trust our own inner worlds and to be able to make sense of our own feelings.
And in secure adult relationships, we offer mirroring, attunement, understanding, and validation to each other regularly.
If this sounds like you, it's not too late.
Healthy, secure adult relationships can help us learn how to meet ourselves safely, and over time we can develop the skill of being able to become more aware of and trusting of our own internal feelings, needs, and boundaries.
If you're working on developing the skill of attunement in your relationships (which can be hard if you didn't receive it!), the Relationship Management Workshop begins October 23.
6 weeks, small group, interactive work in a compassionate space filled with likeminded folks who are also doing the work.
Don't miss out - this is the last workshop of 2025! There are 6 spots left.
https://theeqschool.co/relationship-management-workshop