Health - Mental

Since her early wound involved ignoring her sensations and emotions — especially those of the needy child — her healing requires accepting, loving, and valuing all of those parts. And eventually, it includes uncovering and grieving her early heartbreak at not being valued or seen. Her healing has to be physically embodied: it must be a felt sense

Attachment is built through attunement and caring. In the infant-mother relationship, it is spun largely out of the infant’s needs (expressed in what are called attachment behaviors) and the mother’s responses to these needs. In fact the mother’s responses, their consistency and quality, are the key ingredient.10

People with early childhood struggles which impact their attachment style rarely seem to recover on their own. Instead, their lives seem to follow a trajectory passing through anxiety into depression, and possibly later into panic attacks, trauma, or other mental health issues.