Attachment and Loss – Why the end of a relationship hurts so much
I have been reading about attachment theory recently. Attachment is primary to our being. It is how we have survived as a species – sticking together. Our attachment impulse keeps drawing us together with the other. First with our mothers (when we are very young) and then with others. I read recently that we are not actually wired for losing someone for good. So when we lose someone permanently – through death or for some other reason – our whole system says “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”. We are pushed to do something that we are not actually wired to do.
Happy International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is on March 8. Today, we reflect on what the holiday means…
Episode 8: Understanding the healing journey
In this episode, we explore the healing journey for women who have experienced abuse.
New Year’s greetings!
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Episode 7: Mothering, post separation abuse, and the legal system
How men’s abuse profoundly impacts mothering and how that abuse so often continues after separation…
Episode 6: The harms of help
How services can repeat dynamics of abuse.
Episode 5: Why abusive men are abusive
In this episode, we take on the question women ask again and again: Why is…
Welcome to Episode 4: The impacts of abuse for women
We want to thank you for joining us for this heavy, but essential, conversation. Be…
Episode 3: Understanding the power and control wheel
In this episode of the When Love Hurts podcast, we unpack the realities of power…