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When body memory carries forward parenting patterns

I notice I parent with the same anxious hovering my mother used and my breath gets tight exactly like hers did.

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What we've seen

Somatic patterns of care and control transmit through unconscious mimicry of familiar nervous system states.

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“Where Are You with History as pattern recognition?”

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