Core-Self Pruning
The Developmental Truth of Childhood
Almost all children suffer a sustained and often targeted string of traumatic micro, and macro-aggressions, from the moment they are born.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Puppy-dog Syndrome and the Consequences of Avoidant Parents
This article looks into the basic family relationship, as driven by our genetic need for connection, support, nurturing and protection. We then propose a typical dysfunctional scenario, based on parents that are avoidant of that connection. It proposes that this scenario will result in children that will include a scapegoat, who may well develop C-PTSD based Stockholm Syndrome, before they are old enough to verbalise their long-term abuse. It also introduces a new term – Puppy-dog Syndrome, to describe one of the observable behaviours of children that have had this childhood.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Synchronicity
Synchronicity is a psychological phenomenon where two or more events occur simultaneously in a way that is meaningfully related, despite having no apparent causal connection.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Prison Planet Syndrome: How Acceptance can Lead the Way Home!
Acceptance is the idea that by accepting that it is only ourselves that we can change in order to correct a perceived problem, that this change in the way we choose to look at things can allow us to be open to the solution. The only thing you can change, if you want to change the world around you, is YOU!
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This article discusses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in relation to self-transcendence for individuals working on self.