Caring Matters
I miss my mother even today, 40 years after she passed away. The pain has nearly faded but there will always be that loss – of not knowing. What it would have been to have [Read More]
In my earlier article, on armoring, I had summarized how scoliosis develops as our protective armor against an oppressive, repressive, threatening, and hostile environment. Armoring, according to Wilhelm Reich is the unconscious body contractions/coping patterns [Read More]
Parents shape a child’s reality. Everything they say and do for the first seven years of their children’s lives is recorded and becomes their beliefs and behaviors. Moreover, it is not the environment that shapes [Read More]
I grew up believing in Jesus and how he came to the world to save us from our sins. I still remember hearing the Parable of the Good Samaritan’, I was seven years. The priest was [Read More]
Resilience is the ability to bounce-back after misfortune, harm, sickness or injury. How do we program our child to skillfully navigate through the many challenges they are bound to encounter? They cannot become hardy warriors [Read More]
My friend is pregnant, she is going to have a baby. I am excited for her. It has made me reminisce about my time as a new parent trying to cope with all the change, [Read More]
The theory of armoring was introduced by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and was further developed by Alexander Lowen. According to Reich, psycho-emotional conflicts that are suppressed end up being locked up in the muscular tissue [Read More]
According to the Object relations theory, our psyche/self develops in relation to others in the environment during childhood. Since the mother is the “primary object/ person’ that a child relates to, his perception of this [Read More]
, British pediatrician and psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott coined the phrase ‘good enough mother’. He came to realize that babies and children actually benefit when their caregivers fail them in manageable ways. However, to be good enough, [Read More]
No one can really understand the real interpersonal dynamics in a dysfunctional family. The subterfuge, the denial, the hate, the animosity all behind a cloak of normalcy. That pervading, putrid existence of pretense that shutters the [Read More]