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What Happens When We Are — and Aren't — Held: Attachment, the Nervous System, and the Lifelong Arc of Healing

What Happens When We Are — and Aren't — Held: Attachment, the Nervous System, and the Lifelong Arc of Healing

There is a kind of knowing that lives in the body before it ever reaches language. As a midwife and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, I've witnessed the same truth across birth rooms and therapy rooms: the nervous system remembers what it was — and wasn't — given. This piece explores the arc from attachment parenting to adult reparenting, and why healing is never too late.

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