Disconnection is often equated with social rejection, social exclusion, and/or social isolation, and these feelings of disconenection actually share the same neural pathways with feelings of physical pain.

Disconnections are normative and inevitable in relationships; they occur when one eprson misundetansds invalidates, excludes, humilates, or injures the other person in some way.

• Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 171

Current research shows that the pain and feelings of disconnection are often as real as phscial pain. And just as healing physical pain requires describing it, talking about it, and sometimes getting professional help, we need to do the same thing with emotional pain.

Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 171

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