Part 2 of 3: Schema Loops on Disconnection and Rejection

Some experience early that love or safety might not be there. So we built ways to protect the heart, and those same protections can push away the closeness we want.

This is the Disconnection & Rejection cluster: abandonment, mistrust, emotional deprivation, defectiveness, social isolation. 5 of the 18 patterns.

Old belief, trigger, protective response, an impact that feels like “proof.”

These are patterns we learned to survive.