Corrective Emotional Experience (CEE)

Feeling the missing experience (safety, care, power) in a context where it lands and updates the system.

Description

Originating in psychotherapy (Alexander & French), a CEE is not a stunt; it’s a titrated moment where a Part learns a new truth by living it: “I set a limit and wasn’t abandoned.” This fuels unburdening and role change.

What Corrective Emotional Experience (CEE) is NOT:

Grand gestures; venting; cognitive reframes without felt safety.

Examples:

Being believed while sharing an old humiliation.
Saying “stop” and seeing the relationship hold.
Receiving repair after a rupture, repeatedly.

see also:

Witnessing & Retrieval; Unburdening; Co-regulation; Rupture and Repair; Inner Alignment