Living With Invisible Pain of Not Being Seen

"The most painful part of this is over time, you stop seeing yourself. Living with that level of grief, you give up on and lose track of yourself, disconnect from knowing yourself - you don't see yourself, and then that becomes very challenging. In order to reactivate that and see myself more, I need to see my suffering - I cannot avoid it anymore." This whole video is about a lifetime of ongoing grief and missed opportunities and lack of seeing each other and being seen and experiencing the exchange of mirroring, the exchange of being known. When I work with people they report dying inside emotionally. This being seen and affirmed and known and offering that to another is our mental health - this exchange and attunement is health. Many of us are starving for connection. This video explores the profound experience of *grief**, where the pain can lead to a devastating **loss of identity**. When we disconnect from knowing ourselves, it impacts our overall **mental health* and can foster feelings of deep **depression**. The video reflects on how this suffering changes our very sense of **identity**, hoping for relational invitations to counter this internal struggle. Watch the full video here:    • Want DEEPER Connections? The Power of Bein...   I'm Alan Robarge, an Attachment-Focused Psychotherapist and Relationship Educator. I work with people who die inside when relationships end or who suffocate before the end. I help those hurt by love rebuild what heartbreak shattered and forge a stronger self. 📘 Free Healing Resource Get my FREE 43‑page Finding Yourself Workbook: ➡ www.healingattachmenttrauma.com/FYW-signup The workbook is a companion learning tool to the video "The Secret Behind How Therapy Works." It is about the experience of being Stuck, Triggered, Crushed. See the link below to watch the full video. 🎥 Watch Next:    • Stuck, Triggered, & Crushed? How Therapy H...