I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences between man and cat: man knows he's going to die, so he can get ready and be willing, even eager, to go. A cat knows the end is near, but that's all. He can't accept death: he can't trust in it; cats are perhaps too metaphysical an entity to need to believe in the idea of a beyond; a cat is his own god and man his creation.

~ Jaime Manrique

Jaime Manrique Attachment Autonomy Bravery Cat Cats Death God Love

I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed my mother on her forehead and took a long look in to her hazel eyes. I wondered when I would have the next chance to see her as I whispered, 'I love you. Mother didn't respond. She didn't look well- she had a tint of green and yellow to her skin and her thinning hair was a dull salt and pepper color, cut extra short and clinging to her scalp. She had no makeup on, which told me she just had no more energy. I began to walk out of her room and turned to look at her. I wanted to run up to her, shake her, and beg her to tell me she loved me and was proud of me. But when I looked at her, she was already sleeping.

~ Jori Nunes

Jori Nunes Abusive Parents Attachment Emotional Neglect Emotional Wounds Insecure Attachment Love Mother Mothers And Daughters Unreciprocated Love

It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact, young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

Judith Lewis Herman Attachment Attachment Trauma Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Coercion Coercive Acts Control Incest Parental Abuse Powerlessness

The primary driver to pathological dissociation is attachment disorganization in early life: when that is followed by severe and repeated trauma, then a major disorder of structural dissociation is created (Lyons-Ruth, Dutra, Schuder, & Bianchi, 2006).

~ Frank M. Corrigan

Frank M. Corrigan Attachment Borderline Personality Disorder Childhood Trauma Dissociation Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Identity Disorder Mental Illness Structural Dissociation

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Antonella Gambotto-Burke Attachement Parenting Attachment Babies Child Rearing Motherhood Parenthood

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Aditya Ajmera Ambition Attachment Emptiness Life Reality Of Life

Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson

~ L.j. Vanier

L.j. Vanier Attachment Letting Go

Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Donna Lynn Hope Addiction Attachment Bond Bonding Games

... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some ways it's the ultimate betrayal.

~ Cameron West

Cameron West Abusive Mother Abusive Women Attachment Attachment Trauma Betrayal Betrayal Trauma Child Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Childhood Sexual Abuse Incest Male Survivor Parental Abuse Pedophile Pedophiles Society Denial Traumatic Experiences

I want to see her naked, Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung her body in front of Marlene's and said, You can't have her. I love her, my daughter. My father said, Take the younger one. She's smarter, as he pushed me over forward.Marlene cried because father said I was smarter even though he was just trying to manipulate Mengele. The doctor's chest grew large.

~ Wendy Hoffman

Wendy Hoffman Attachment Betrayal Child Abuse Childhood Abuse Childhood Sexual Abuse Childhood Trauma Josef Mengele Manipulation War Criminals

I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

~ Turcois Ominek

Turcois Ominek Attachment Growth Process Inspirational Learn Let Go Life Life Lessons

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Attachment Destruction Habits Life

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

~ Guy Finley

Guy Finley Attachment Expectations

In this paper I propose the existence of two distinct presentations of DID, a Stable and an Active one. While people with Stable DID struggle with their traumatic past, with triggers that re-evoke that past and with the problems of daily functioning with severe dissociation, people with Active DID are, in addition, also engaged in a life of current, on-going involvement in abusive relationships, and do not respond to treatment in the same way as other DID patients. The paper observes these two proposed DID presentations in the context of other trauma-based disorders, through the lens of their attachment relationship. It proposes that the type, intensity and frequency of relational trauma shape—and can thus predict—the resulting mental disorder. - Through the lens of attachment relationship: Stable DID, Active DID and other trauma-based mental disorders

~ Adah Sachs

Adah Sachs Active Did Attachment Dissociation Dissociative Identity Disorder Mental Disorder Mental Health Repeating The Past Revictimisation Stable Did Traumatized

Life is a combo of attachment and detachment. Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to persons, places and things. However, while getting attached so, you should know that all these attachments too have an expiry date. It's exactly at that point that the art of detachment helps. Persons, places and things are meant for specific periods in life after which you should know how to let go and embrace newer things. The world is beautiful and you should have belief in Him.

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

Neelam Saxena Chandra Attachment Attachments Detachment Detachments Life Love Moving On Neelam Saxena Chandra

Chemistry is not destiny, certainly. But these scientists have demonstrated that the most reliable way to produce an adult who is brave and curious and kind and prudent is to ensure that when he is an infant, his hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functions well. And how do you do that? It is not magic. First, as much as possible, you protect him from serious trauma and chronic stress; then, even more important, you provide him with a secure, nurturing relationship with at least one parent and ideally two. That's not the whole secret of success, but it is a big, big part of it.

~ Paul Tough

Paul Tough Ace Attachment Brain Chemistry Stress Trauma

Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond, to develop a secure and safe base, an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child, a quest for familiarity, an unspoken language and knowledge that a caregiver will be a permanent fixture.

~ Asa Don Brown

Asa Don Brown Attachment Bonds Capella University Childhood Trauma Parental Bond Ptsd Reactive Attachment Disorder Trauma

My affection for you is not my problem.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Ljupka Cvetanova Affection Attachment Care Devotion Emotional Fondness Like Love Valentine S Day

Been Contented goes beyond our material wants; contentment sets us free from the illusion of having more or “Better things”, or expecting “better times it sets us free from the illusion that somehow things should be different.

~ Martin Suarez

Martin Suarez Attachment Clinging Contentment Freedom

Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Attachment External Inner Peace Suffocation

[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

~ Judith Hanson Lasater

Judith Hanson Lasater Attachment Peace Yoga

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

~ Manil Suri

Manil Suri Attachment Buddha

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

~ Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed Attachment Purpose Of Life

The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

~ Warwick Middleton

Warwick Middleton Abuse Survivors Abusive Parents Attachment Child Abuse Child Abuse Survivors Dissociation Dissociative Disorder Grooming Psychological Defense Trauma Bonding

Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

~ Boep Joeng

Boep Joeng Attachment Beggar Nothing Possession

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

~ Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik Study Feel Attachment

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

~ Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik Style Passive Attachment