Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
We are wounded in relationship, and we need to heal in relationship.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
The term “girl” came into popular usage in England in the 1880s to describe working-class unmarried women who occupied an emerging social space between childhood and adulthood. Not quite a child, she was childlike in that she had yet to become a wife or mother, the type of modern urbanite who engaged in “frivolous” pursuits like consumption,
... See moreAshley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
An important gesture of courtesy and good boundaries in relationships is not to tell partners or friends what they should feel or think.
Lindsay C. Gibson • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
very difficult sometimes to distinguish between "is this a hard thing I'm supposed to work through" or "is it hard because it's the wrong thing and I need to let go"
Michelle Elisabeth Varghesex.com