Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
adult children seek to control others and ward off potentially shaming or abandoning situations.
ACA WSO INC. • ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
silent power is a strength you quietly express, not one you wield. It’s born from the seeds of self-control.
Stuart Wilde • Silent Power
sometimes you catch yourself being exactly who you are.
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In one pattern, called “avoidant attachment,” the infants look like nothing really bothers them—they don’t cry when their mother goes away and they ignore her when she comes back. However, this does not mean that they are unaffected. In fact, their chronically increased heart rates show that they are in a constant state of hyperarousal.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Grief doesn't go away. It exists on a different plain from life and intersects less and less with life as time goes on. The last place it visits you is in dreams. By this time, you don’t want it to go away.
