Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
In 2015, journalist Johann Hari published a summary of his reporting on addiction that included a line that spread widely and generated considerable debate: “The...
Read Article →Not all trauma is the same. The word has expanded so far in popular usage that it now encompasses everything from car accidents to minor...
Read Article →Of the four attachment styles, avoidant attachment is probably the hardest to recognize in yourself. That’s not an accident. The entire structure of avoidant attachment...
Read Article →Shame is not the same as guilt. This distinction matters, and it gets collapsed so frequently in everyday language that the difference is worth establishing...
Read Article →People who struggle significantly with emotional regulation are often told, in so many words, that they’re overreacting. They’re too sensitive. They take things too personally....
Read Article →The way you see yourself , the running internal commentary on whether you’re acceptable, capable, lovable, enough , doesn’t emerge from nowhere. It was built,...
Read Article →If you’re a people-pleaser, you’ve probably been told that the solution is to practice saying no. Maybe you’ve tried. Maybe you’ve even managed it in...
Read Article →“Codependency” is one of those terms that has traveled far enough from its origins that it now means different things in different conversations. It began...
Read Article →Borderline personality disorder carries more stigma than almost any other mental health diagnosis. It appears disproportionately in charts noted with flags, discussed in clinical consultation...
Read Article →Trauma research has historically focused, understandably, on what happened. The event, the injury, the threat. What attachment research adds is a different frame: what trauma...
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