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Why Family Relationships Trigger Childhood States

Every time my mother calls I feel like I am eight years old again and nothing I have learned about boundaries seems to matter.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Early relational patterns remain encoded in the nervous system and are automatically activated by familiar interpersonal dynamics.

Ideas that help explain it
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