Hi Silver Trees. I was thinking more about this. I, too, was emotionally neglected in my childhood. I learned in my adult years to feed myself all the love and affirmation I never received as a child. I worked on my self-esteem and on feeding it.

Now I realize that may not seem to relate to a sense of emptiness, but it's what helped me to fill that void, in addition to all that I mentioned previously.

The void for me I think had to do with not feeling truly loved or appreciated for who I am. So I learned to love and appreciate myself, and that love grew over the years. It did take therapy, which helped, but I also worked on it by myself for a long time.

I think when we can truly love ourselves, we feel more full, within ourselves and within our lives. Kind of like a spiritual level of "fullness".

I could be totally off-based here since I am relating my own sense of emptiness to yours, and yours could be very different than mine, but since you mentioned childhood neglect, it dawned on me that I had gone through the same thing as a kid.

Just some food for thought!!! HUGS!