8 Quotes by Bonnie Badenoch about attachment
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our nervous systems have a preference for the social engagement system that maintains connection
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our brains are continuously yearning for the arrival of a co-organizing other
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We are deeply sensitive to one another's presence
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emotional regulation flows naturally from being in the presence of someone we trust
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In any attachment encounter, there is both what we perceive being offered and our embodied response to it. If we call to mind, heart and body three or four people with whom we've had particularly close relationships, how do our bodies respond to their offers of connection?We can begin by being with muscles, belly, heart and breath. How does our body want to move?
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We humans are always seeking the warmest attachments we can imagine
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James Coan says, "In truth, because so many neural structures are involved in one way or another in attachment behavior, it is possible to think of the entire human brain as a neural attachment system.
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Our brainstems take in the rhythmic movements of [our mother/primary attachment] as she attentively follows our bid for play, our drift towards sleep, our signal that it is time to be quietly together. In our midbrain, our SEEKING system finds the waiting eyes and arms of our mother's CARE system in times of PLAY or GRIEF, patterning the expectation that connections will be restored when they are momentarily lost, that ruptures will call forth repairs.
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