Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
reacquainting yourself with yourself.
There is no question that language is essential: Our sense of Self depends on being able to organize our memories into a coherent whole.27 This requires well-functioning connections between the conscious brain and the self system of the body—connections that often are damaged by trauma. The full story can be told only after those structures are rep
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Anxious attachment stems from a deep sense of inner instability where old wounds make people anticipate that they will be abandoned again and again.
Jessica Baum • Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
sometimes you catch yourself being exactly who you are.
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Our self-experience is the product of the balance between our rational and our emotional brains. When these two systems are in balance, we “feel like ourselves.” However, when our survival is at stake, these systems can function relatively independently.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Walking through your own corridors of emotions, so that one day you can hold the hand of someone else as they walk through their own.
Good self-care is being kind to yourself. Can you speak to yourself with as much empathy and caring as you would to a loved one? Can you touch your face or your arm with