Mar 11, 2022 |
“There is a very close relation between being known and knowing others and allowing others to know us. When somebody goes to therapy, it usually impacts everyone around them in many ways. We can say it challenges relationships. It does many things....
Feb 25, 2022 |
“When someone is disordered in their eating often what you find is that they’ve been a kid who has learned to have radar for the feelings of other people. Whether it’s a family where the kid can’t express their emotions and parents’ emotions rule, that...
Feb 11, 2022 |
“Polyvagal theory at the simplest level emphasizes that we have a physiological system, and the autonomic nervous system mediates how we react and respond to the world. When our autonomic nervous system is calm it supports our bodily functions. It...
Jan 28, 2022 |
“[during the MDMA experience] at around 45 minutes they may notice a shift where the anxiety dissipates and there is a sense of opening, a sense of feeling ok, maybe more than ok, maybe feeling a little bit blissful or positive. One...
Jan 14, 2022 |
“To be able to contain, withstand and hold the aggression of your adolescents who push you away, you have to feel very secure – meaning that you have to feel pretty good about yourself as a parent, that you have given them...
Dec 17, 2021 |
“There’s this kind of dance between biology and this little molecule that gave us the capacity to take care of our infants by feeding them directly. That gave us tremendous freedom – we didn’t need a nest so we were able to wander the...