Parental unresolved trauma can show up as fear or detachment, and it can prevent secure emotional bonds, even without abuse.

Our most developmentally important relationships begin in our formative years and come from our teachers, mentors, friends, and our parents or parental figures. How we connect with others is, in some ...

Parenting is probably the most difficult job you'll have in your lifetime. That's especially true if you're dealing with past ...

The way we connect with others as adults is often shaped by our earliest experiences with caregivers. From birth, a child seeks comfort, security and love, forming attachments that become the ...

Key Takeaways Kids with an anxious attachment can be clingy, sensitive, and have low-esteem.Anxious attachment requires healing—parents should encourage independence and emotional regulation.If ...

The unique symptoms of PTSD in youth, and treatments specific to children after trauma. Exploring how PTSD looks different in children than in adults, what factors contribute to trauma’s long-term ...

The Ministry of Equality’s Supported Needs and Disability Office (SNDO) has provided training on trauma, attachment and neurodiversity for professionals in the lead-up to International Day of Persons ...

There’s a reason April Beaton has a 6-foot white beanbag in the living room and not a coffee table; a reason her 5-year-old son’s bedroom is kept bare. There’s a reason she keeps a stack of printouts ...