The Neuroscience of Enmeshment | MindLAB Neuroscience
The Neuroscience of Enmeshment — How Blurred Boundaries Rewire Your Brain The neuroscience of enmeshment begins with a specific circuit failure. The default mode network, anterior cingulate cortex, and insular cortex — the three systems that together build your sense of a bounded, felt self — are retrained by chronic family-system fusion to operate as though there is no edge between you and the people who raised you. Adult children of enmeshed families carry that wiring for decades. ...
