Overcoming the Distress of Broken Connection

Always immersing and learning deeper layers so I can first and foremost know and be able to hold myself but in turn have the undeniable strength to hold and serve others with humility, respect, integrity, compassion and love.

Currently diving into advanced modules of Neuroaffective Touch. Overcoming the distress of broken connection.

So I thought I’d share some basic insights. I hope this awakens inquiry within you ☺️.

Attuned attachment from the baby's perspective

The heart continually monitors the quality of the mother's presence and connection; disturbances in attachment or breaks in connection register as shocks to the heart.

When working with the body, addressing the needs of the heart and the relational traumas to the heart is of primary importance to healing relational ruptures.

Attuned attachment from the mother's perspective

A mother's brainwaves are synchronized to her baby's heartbeat. Any break in the continuity of their relational field is experienced by the baby as a matter of life and death.

Adults often describe the brain to heart relational break as a feeling of falling into a bottomless void.

Emotional Shocks to the Heart

Abuse, abandonment, neglect, and betrayal are all violations of the biological imperative of loving connection embedded in the developmental blueprint of the heart At the core of developmental trauma is the experience of a deep wounding to a child's capacity to love.

The body carries the imprint of the struggles to protect and guard against shocks to the heart. Each survival adaptation, in its own way, protects and guards against shocks to the heart.

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