To help us understand how our anger patterns develop we’re going to take a brief tour of developmental psychology. This is the first in a series of posts, and the posts are all linked, each one connecting to the following one etc…

Picking up where we left off, when a child is nurtured in a loving environment for the a sufficient time do consolidate their trust in their mother’s love, they are all that much more likely to grow into an adult …

Love is a powerful force, and its presence or lack thereof can dramatically alter an individual’s state of well-being. Psychology studies and other scientific research have shown that those raised with sufficient love have stronger immune systems, lead healthier emotional lives…

We left off last time having just experienced the traumatic feelings of our mother not always being there, which is very confusing for us. This is a shock for us, however as soon as our mother’s love returns, we usually feel safe and taken care of once again…

At this stage, the developmental story becomes more complex, and due to space limitations and in order to stay on our topic, we’ll have to leave many levels of detail behind. But the stage is now set for our exploration of how anger develops…

Another dynamic that happens when we are cut off from our mother’s love too soon is that we develop patterns of dissociation. The pain and confusion of being abandoned by our life source is more than our unformed self can process…

The story of early childhood wounding is a glimpse into a tragic and painful dimension of being human. Even though our nature is made of goodness and love, due to our ignorance of that very nature, we perpetuate suffering for …