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Imagine having a parent tell you they don’t love you, and then being left to heal from that.
That was Aimee Hudsons experience in her early 20’s and it drove her to learn and understand the influence of parental attachment.
Aimee is a clinically registered psychotherapist who is deeply passionate about helping people understand how they came to be ‘them’.
Her work is grounded in attachment, trauma, and nervous system-informed approaches, supporting individuals and couples to make sense of their patterns and gently shift towards new ways of relating to themselves and others.
She is the director of The Psych Collaborative: an online psychology clinic, co-host of The Psychology Sisters podcast, and founder of The Thriving Therapist, where she supports therapists to grow in confidence, clarity, and community.
In this episode she shares:
- Her early childhood and the emotional abuse she experienced
- The moment she confronted her mother
- Her experience of estrangement and what leads to it
- The earlier relationship fractures she experienced before the estrangement
- How the fact she was forced to be an adult in her relationship with her mother showed up in other relationships
- How the internalising of estrangement impacted her
- The impact of shame
- The hardest part for her since the estrangement at the age of 22
- Strategies she suggests on handling people asking about the estranged parents
- How nervous system activation shows up for her
- How she has found a way to find comfort and safety in this world
Key Quotes
“What makes estrangement so impactful is that you internalise it.”
“When a mother cuts ties it feels like a loss of a safe place in the world.”
More about Aimee
Follow Aimee on Instagram via the Psych Collaborative, The Psychology Sisters or the Thriving Therapists.
Or check out the Psych Collaborative website or the Thriving Therapists website.
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If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:
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