Health - Mental

Maintenance and healing

Children become attached to whoever functions as their primary caregiver. But the nature of that attachment—whether it is secure or insecure—makes a huge difference over the course of a child’s life. Secure attachment develops when caregiving includes emotional attunement. Attunement starts at the most subtle physical levels of interaction between

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

That says a lot about society, and nothing about you. Rest assured that many millions of us know the immense value of changing your inner world, or even just surviving it, because we’re doing it quietly alongside you. Most of what the human world accomplishes on any given day is very hard to see.

David Cain • Most Accomplishments Are Invisible

“To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.”

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Stephen Levine

A quote by Stephen Levine

This is why trauma that has occurred within relationships is generally more difficult to treat than trauma resulting from traffic accidents or natural disasters. In our society the most common traumas in women and children occur at the hands of their parents or intimate partners.

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus

Dylano | Essayful • Tweet

A body of research is emerging that demonstrates a clear link between our surroundings and our mental health.

Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness

The more emotional energy invested in the object or person, the greater will be the feeling of loss and the greater the pain associated with the undoing of the bonds of dependence. Attachment creates a dependency, and dependency, because of its nature, intrinsically carries with it a fear of loss.

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