In this article, I will give an overview of the basics of attachment theory as pertaining to early life experiences. When we are born, we are helpless and defenseless and utterly dependent on our primary carers (who I will refer to as mother, regardless of who it was in reality). From birth, we are learning about relationship, in relationship. We are … [Read more...] about Understanding Attachment Theory
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Mindfulness in Therapy
Most people are now familiar with mindfulness as a meditation practice, but how does mindfulness in therapy work? How is it that the mindful presence of another in a therapeutic or just humanly intimate setting can facilitate the emerging and potentially healing and integration of the wounding within us? What is it about the presence […]
Mindfulness and Mental Health
Mindfulness can have many benefits for our mental health. What mindfulness does is experientially open the space between the observer and the observed. The observer is our ‘Being’, some call this ‘True Self’, or capital ‘S’ Self, which for me is problematic as there does not seem to be anything within the nature of ‘Being’ […]
Insecure Attachment – Why Understanding it is Important
One of the significant impacts of insecure attachment, ie, attachment trauma, is the implicit beliefs about ourselves that arise from it. These beliefs tend to be of a very similar nature, along the lines of, there’s something wrong with me, I’m unlovable, I’m broken, nobody loves me, I’m bad, and, i have to hide my […]
Insecure Attachment in the Right Brain
Insecure attachment is becoming increasingly well understood. The research of neuroscience continues to give ever increasing detail and validation to attachment theory, first purported by John Bowlby more than half a century ago. Over the past decade, it has become abundantly clear that the in utero and immediate postnatal environments, and the one on one […]
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7 Easy Ways to Increase Mindfulness
