Co-dependency is placing a person on top of your trauma assuming their presence can keep the pain away. Over time, it’s not that they're letting us down, it’s that our pain is increasing & our body recognizes that the one who bore the pain, is the only one that can heal it.

You bet, our self-love is gonna be imperfect. Our self-care's gonna be imperfect. Our recovery's gonna be imperfect. Keep at it. Imperfect self-love, self-care, & recovery beats self-hate, self-mockery, & self-sabotage every day of the week. Keep stumbling forward.

Time is the most important resource you have ⏰ Using it wisely is the most important thing you can do 💻 So here are10 free websites that will save you hours every single week:

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Trauma responses aren't choices. They're conditioned reflexes. We can make ourselves less vulnerable to them & condition our responses to them-- but there's no shame in experiencing a trauma response. They happen. You didn't ask for them. Ease up. You're working on it.

“It is sobering to realize that many of the personality traits we have come to believe are us, and perhaps even take pride in, actually bear the scars of where we lost connection to ourselves, way back when.” Dr. Gabor Maté The Myth of Normal

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Did you know that your baby is a skilled reader of your emotional cues… and uses them to help make sense of their own feelings and experiences? Here’s an example caught on tape. When a potential danger startles this little guy, watch as he reacts in three distinct stages.

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason. Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of

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“I asked myself.” ❤️ You’ve probably seen this amazing video of little Willa, which has been shared far and wide on social media since its original posting in 2019. I could write 10 different posts about the reasons I love it (#HomeyDepot), but today I want to spotlight what I

We're all masking in some way. Hiding parts of who we are. Performing for people. Trying to change ourselves to get approval. The happiest people in the world allow themselves to be misunderstood. They know authenticity feels better than false approval.

After observing a similar habit among highly creative people (Einstein, Mozart, da Vinci, etc), the neuroscientist Dr. Nancy Andreasen designed a brain-imaging study to understand the neural basis of this habit. Essentially, these creative people all carved out time each day

— James Baldwin