Mental Health Blog

Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.

Attachment Theory Foundations
August 12, 2026

Why the Most Formative Years Are the Ones You Can’t Recall

The Island: The Person Who Needs No One (Until the Loneliness Wins) He came in at the insistence of his wife and said so immediately,...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
August 10, 2026

The Feeling Is the Memory: How Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Can’t

How the Empath Forms: The Child Who Learned Their Value Was Their Usefulness A man I’ll call Philip had a mother who cried easily. Not...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
August 5, 2026

Implicit vs. Explicit Memory: Why You Can’t Remember What Shaped You Most

The Empath: When Caring for Everyone Else Becomes Your Identity She came in carrying coffee for both of us. I had not asked for any,...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
August 3, 2026

Bowlby and Ainsworth: How Attachment Theory Was Discovered

Bowlby and Ainsworth: How Attachment Theory Was Discovered In the winter of 1950, the World Health Organization asked a British psychiatrist named John Bowlby to...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
July 29, 2026

The Strange Situation Experiment, Explained

The Strange Situation Experiment, Explained The room was small and deliberately ordinary. A chair, some toys on the floor, a one-way mirror. The year was...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
July 27, 2026

The Secure Base: What Every Child Needs and What Happens Without It

The Secure Base: What Every Child Needs and What Happens Without It I want you to watch something with me. It is not dramatic. Nothing...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
July 22, 2026

Why Your Working Model Feels Like the Truth (and Isn’t)

Why Your Working Model Feels Like the Truth (and Isn’t) A man I’ll call Thomas came to me after his girlfriend of three years ended...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
July 20, 2026

The Internal Working Model: The Relationship Map You Don’t Know You’re Using

The Internal Working Model: The Relationship Map You Don’t Know You’re Using A woman I’ll call Nina came to see me after her second divorce....

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Attachment Theory Foundations
July 15, 2026

700 Synapses Per Second: What Happens in a Baby’s Brain

700 Synapses Per Second: What Happens in a Baby’s Brain There is a photograph on the bookshelf in my waiting room. It was there when...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
July 13, 2026

Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together: How Your Brain Was Built by Childhood

Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together: How Your Brain Was Built by Childhood I sat with a man once who had been in a bad...

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