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4 weeks ago

Who Can We Blame for Our Troubles?

Responsibility is essential for personal growth and overcoming challenges.

"Shunishment" Blends Boundaries With Manipulation

Shunishment uses presence and absence to control behavior and create fear.

It relies on vague, shifting rules and can emerge from avoidant attachment styles.

Shunishment may suppress self-expression, particularly for marginalized groups.

Mindfulness

The Relational Starting Point for Compassion

Compassion and empathy are trainable skills that can be developed through specific practices like attachment priming and meditation.

fromtime.com

The High Price We Pay for Tribalism

We have an innate need to attach to caregivers; however, anything beyond that initial impulse to attach must be taught.

Parenting

fromPitchfork

Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory Announce Fall 2025 Tour

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory are set for a second North American tour starting September 11, 2025.

2 Signs You're Mistaking Intimacy Issues for 'The Ick'

People with higher levels of disgust sensitivity are more likely to reject potential partners for minor flaws.

Relationships

Don't Laugh When Your Child Is Crying

Attachment research should guide parenting practice.

Everyday behaviors can be more significant than is initially apparent.

Parental laughing when children are distressed can have a serious negative impact.

Relationships

That Toxic Relationship You Just Can't Leave

Toxic relationships are misleading due to moments of happiness that obscure chronic mistreatment.

Relationships

There's More to Relationship Success Than Attachment Style

Combining attachment style and personality traits enriches understanding of relationship stability.

3 Ways to Know Who You Can Trust

Trust is essential for relationship building, guided by three dimensions identified in psychotherapy.

Motherless Sons: The Impact of Loss

A mother's loss profoundly impacts sons, affecting their emotional health and attachment styles throughout life.

Growing Up Alone

Emotional neglect in childhood drives self-reliance but at the cost of healthy connections.

AI Is Replacing Our Jobs-But What If It's Also Replacing Us?

If growth comes from struggle, and if relationships are where we mirror and evolve, what happens when we outsource those human moments to machines?

Artificial intelligence

Pets

3 months ago

Does Our Love for a Pet Ever Truly Leave Us?

Losing a pet evokes profound grief akin to losing a human loved one.

The command "stay" signifies protection and lasting memory during the grieving process.

Love for a pet transforms into enduring presence and memory after loss.

3 months ago

Feeling Alone in the Company of Others

Even if we share the space with people we know or members of our community, it might feel like their presence highlights our isolation.

Mental health

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Mental health

"Jeong": A Korean Word for the Felt Sense of Connectedness

Mental health

Can a Single, Subtle Security Prime Make a Difference?

Mental health

"Jeong": A Korean Word for the Felt Sense of Connectedness

Mental health

Can a Single, Subtle Security Prime Make a Difference?

Why Do They Lie?

Understanding dismissive attachment helps navigate online dating and avoid potential deception.

Relationships

Partner Betrayal and Relational Recovery

Partner betrayal significantly disrupts emotional stability and security in relationships.

A new approach, the RRPB model, offers insights into treating the effects of partner betrayal trauma.

Betrayed partners require specialized treatment due to the unique challenges they face.

How Furry Friends Shape Young Hearts and Minds

Pets enhance a child's emotional well-being and empathy.

Secure pet attachments lead to better care and empathy.

Parental behavior influences how children treat pets.

Pets can be pivotal in a child's social skills development.

Parenting

The 7 Key Ways a Child's Mind Works

Understanding a child's emotional mindset is crucial for parents to raise happy, healthy children.

How Furry Friends Shape Young Hearts and Minds

Pets enhance a child's emotional well-being and empathy.

Secure pet attachments lead to better care and empathy.

Parental behavior influences how children treat pets.

Pets can be pivotal in a child's social skills development.

The 7 Key Ways a Child's Mind Works

Understanding a child's emotional mindset is crucial for parents to raise happy, healthy children.

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Mental health

fromFast Company

5 months ago

People with secure attachment to their pets are less depressed, researchers find

The quality of pet attachment can significantly affect mental well-being, with anxious attachments contributing to depression.

Miscellaneous

fromSlate Magazine

5 months ago

Is Your Attachment Style "Secure"? "Anxious"? "Avoidant"? The Answer Isn't Your Destiny.

Understanding one's childhood attachment style is crucial to forming strong adult relationships.