The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.
Interpretation
The bond between a parent and child is crucial for mental health.
This quote emphasizes the significant impact that the relationship between a parent and child has on mental well-being. It suggests that a strong, supportive connection can serve as the most effective means of fostering emotional health and resilience during challenging times.
In practice
In a parenting workshop about building strong family ties.
People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.
Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.
Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
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