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Healing Childhood Trauma
Welcome to Healing Childhood Trauma for Millennial Women where healing meets growth. The podcast where we deep dive into healing from the past, overcoming high functioning anxiety and attachment to have better relationships with ourselves and others.
I'm Lizandra Leigertwood, a psychotherapist and relationship therapist who specialises in childhood trauma in adults helping you to transform the relationship you have with yourself and others.
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Healing Childhood Trauma
5 Emotionally Immature Relationship Patterns That Drain You [Ep 53]
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In this episode, I’m breaking down 5 types of emotionally immature behaviour that high-functioning women often tolerate, excuse or overcompensate for.
We cover:
• What emotional immaturity actually looks like in adult relationships
• The defensive partner who turns every conversation into an attack
• Gaslighting and why it slowly erodes your self-trust
• The minimiser who makes your feelings feel “too much”
• The avoidant who disappears when things get real
• The victim performer who collapses when you ask for accountability
• Why capable, high-achieving women are especially vulnerable to these dynamics
• The nervous system cost of staying in emotionally immature relationships
If this episode resonates and you’re ready to stop carrying the emotional weight in your relationships, I work with high-functioning women in 1:1 therapy to:
• Strengthen boundaries without guilt
• Rebuild trust in your own perception
• Break attachment patterns rooted in childhood
• Stop confusing emotional chaos with chemistry
Lizandra is a registered psychotherapist who works 1:1 with relational trauma in the UK. Book an intro call here.
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