As I'm preparing for a conference application on resilience, I chose the topic of "untangling trauma from 0 - 7" to focus on. Why? Because during those ages, we have very little say in what is done TO us. And that is how trauma is normalized and passed on, unconsciously through: * epigenetics * power of modeling * the invisible cultural and familiar ... Continue Reading >>
childhood trauma
Stela Murrizi: A Mother’s Internal Cues Matter to Our Children’s Evolution
"How many children grow up to feel unwanted by their mothers? And then spend the rest of their lives trying desperately to “be somebody” while perpetually battling a perpetual inner war of never enough. How many mothers mean to abandon their children? What is abandonment, anyway? Perhaps we’ll start here. Because abandonment is a nominalization. It ... Continue Reading >>