Jonice Webb Ph.D.

About

Jonice Webb, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, speaker, and best-selling author of two self-help books, Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect and Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships. Dr. Jonice’s driving goal has been to build awareness of the long-lasting, often invisible effects of childhood emotional neglect on people’s adult lives. Now recognized worldwide for her groundbreaking work, Dr. Jonice has been interviewed about childhood emotional neglect on CBS Boston Evening News, NECN Morning News, and NPR. Her work has been cited by the Chicago Tribune, the Mumbai Mirror, and many other U.S. and international publications. Jonice has trained hundreds of licensed therapists in identifying and treating childhood emotional neglect in their clients.

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Recent Posts

How to Rid Your Marriage of Emotional Neglect

Three signs indicate there may be emotional neglect in your marriage. Once you see it, you can take specific steps to emotionally connect and enrich your relationship.

Why Some People Feel Like Outsiders Even if They're Not

The feeling of not belonging is very common in those who are raised with emotional neglect. Fortunately, there is a way to address the root cause of this harmful feeling.

3 Strategies People Use to Avoid Their Feelings Every Day

Escape, avoidance, and minimization seem to be simple and straightforward strategies to handle pain, so many people choose them. Yet, they make things worse in every way.

3 Signs of Emotional Neglect in a Relationship

No one chooses emotional neglect in their marriage, yet it happens in many. Here are 3 relationship dynamics that may signal you are emotionally neglecting your spouse.

6 Signs of Alexithymia, and What to Do About Them

Alexithymia, the inability to identify and name your own feelings, causes a variety of significant life problems. But it is not insurmountable.

The Invisible Child All Grown Up

Parents struggling with life challenges may lack the time and energy to respond to their child's feelings. This effectively trains the child to hide their feelings and themselves.

10 False Lessons Childhood Emotional Neglect Teaches You

Our first teachers are our parents, who are supposed to teach us about emotions. But If your parents avoid dealing with your emotions, they give you some harmful, false ideas.

Resentful Love: The Burden of Adult Children of Neglect

Emotionally neglectful parents can leave their adult children feeling resentful of them. But, for many, it's very possible to repair the harm.

4 Major Life Struggles Caused by Childhood Emotional Neglect

Childhood emotional neglect undermines your self-knowledge, self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. But it can all be developed later in life.

How Childhood Emotional Neglect Hurts Adult Friendships

Growing up in a home that discourages your emotions teaches you to hide your feelings from others. Later, as an adult, your friendships pay the price.