🚨 Attachment Theory Series 🚨
Attachment Theory explains how our early relationships shape how we connect with others throughout life.
In this series, we’ll break it down into 4 threads:👇
"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities."
- Carl Jung
“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.”
— Charlie Munger
The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.
Most of the relationship skills you learned from your parents are not relationship skills at all. They're leftover trauma behaviors from several messed up generations.
Unpopular opinion: I don't think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it's okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die
If a malignant narcissist wants to destroy someone, they develop a false narrative about that person, including misconstruing details of that person‘s life to make them seem nefarious. They are excellent story tellers, except it’s all false, designed to destroy another person.
Getting irritable is the first signal your nervous system sends you that it's no longer regulated and it's time to take a walk. Even if that walk is just around the house.
This is a trauma response.
Believing that everyone would take advantage of you that is.
Some would no doubt do.
But not all.
We need to learn how to spot those rotten apples.
We need to learn how to regulate our nervous system to stop seeing everything as a threat.