This is a 5-part series I started writing a few months ago when I saw a clear link between estrangement picked up by media and treated as a “trend”, the Epstein files and Palestine. Bear with me as I unpack all of this. And take care of you !
You can read Part 1: Estrangement is a trend… is it? here.
If you’ve been reading my work for a while, you know that a lot of it — if not most of it — revolves around agency. Agency is central to healing because trauma is, at its core, the experience of having our sovereignty and dignity stripped away.
Somatic attachment theory teaches us something crucial: a developing child will form an attachment relationship with any caregiver who provides regular physical or emotional care, regardless of the quality of that care. Children attach even to neglectful or abusive caregivers.
The reason is simple. At birth, we are extraordinarily
