Health - Mental

Maintenance and healing

Good self-care is finding (healthy) activities that give you a moment of pleasure or are a time out from what is so stressful.

Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed

sometimes you catch yourself being exactly who you are.

"Tell me about a time you adapted to change." "What's working really well in your life?"

"What are you most self-confident about?"

"Which of your five senses is strongest?"

"Have you ever been solitary without feeling lonely?" or

"What has become clearer to you as you have aged?"

Parental abuse is not the only cause of disorganized attachment: Parents who are preoccupied with their own trauma, such as domestic abuse or rape or the recent death of a parent or sibling, may also be too emotionally unstable and inconsistent to offer much comfort and protection.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Attachment and dependence occur because we feel incomplete within ourselves; therefore, we seek objects, people, relationships, places, and concepts to fulfill inner needs.

David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

It’s not the child’s responsibility to teach the parent who they are; it’s the parent’s responsibility to learn who their child is.