The Confluence Trap: Focusing on Others and Forgetting About Yourself

  Although you might not realize it, sometimes, you may use different strategies to avoid connecting with yourself or your environment. In effect, you try to avoid connecting with your emotions and needs and with the situation in front of you. Moreover, you’ve probably done so for decades. These unconscious mechanisms are studied in the field of psychology. Today we’re going to talk about one of them, confluence. Think of a calm and obedient child, who’s become an extension of their parents. Think of a marriage in which there’s apparently complete and absolute harmony. Or, the individual who seeks, at…