Attachment Theory in Childhood As seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza once said, “All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love”. Originally, attachment theory was designed to explain the nature of child-caregiver bonds in infancy. Attachment theorist John Bowlby’s primary assertion was that human survival depended […]

Here are 5 self-compassion strategies to use when you are feeling inadequate and self-critical: 1. Stop the comparison game by keeping your humanness at the top of mind. Author Tara Brach (“Radical Acceptance”) stated, “Feeling unworthy goes hand in hand with feeling separate from others…the more deficient we feel, the more separate and vulnerable we […]

British psychoanalyst John Bowlby was interested in the emotional bond between infants and their primary caregiver, and the profound distress infants experience when separated from this caregiver – whom he called an attachment figure. An infant’s primary attachment figure is most often his or her birth mother, but can be an alternative caregiver to whom […]