Childhood sex abuse has a profound impact on one’s development and emotional adjustment. Men who experience childhood sex abuse often minimize the experience.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Self-sabotaging behaviors are painful and confusing. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps us understand this complex issue and offers a path to healing.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
In abusive families, we have to shrink ourselves in order to emotionally survive. Understanding how this continues to impact us as adults is essential.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Childhood trauma can negatively impact our ability to form meaningful connections. The effects of this abuse can make some vulnerable to becoming affair-prone.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Compartmentalization and escapism are common ways to handle difficult emotional experiences. However, they can be overused and weaken our self-capacities.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Self-sabotaging behaviors can prevent you from leading a fulfilling, meaningful life. Understand the unconscious dynamics that lead to self-defeating behaviors.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
The chronic or habitual liar is someone who cannot stop lying without considerable effort or professional help. The motivations for habitual lying are explored.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Unresolved childhood trauma has a devastating and lasting impact on the lives of survivors. The role of toxic shame is explored in men who have suffered abuse.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
This article explores how unresolved childhood abuse shapes adult behaviors, making survivors vulnerable to leading secretive lives and engaging in infidelity.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
The effects of childhood abuse follow men throughout their lives. Remaining silent about the abuse keeps it alive. Healing requires this silence to be broken.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Childhood trauma causes emotional wounds that follow us into adulthood. Central to these emotional injuries are the legacy of shame and feelings of inadequacy.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Internal Family Systems (IFS) manager and firefighter parts help us understand the different ways in which we protect ourselves from emotional pain.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
For many, unresolved childhood abuse can play a significant role in infidelity. Understanding these trauma dynamics are essential to healing.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Among trauma survivors, there’s a phenomenon that occurs: they feel compelled to stay silent about the abuse they endured. We explore what motivates silence.| Richard Nicastro, PhD