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While I continue work on my other post for today about what I think is a therapy that has great healing potential for infant-child severe abuse survivors, I wanted to again post these links (below) to some very important information about attachment and relationships.

As I prepare the second post, I think about how I believe there is a universe of difference between the word ‘recovery’ and the word ‘healing’.  While I do not rely on any concept related to recovery for severe early abuse survivors (because we have nothing to go back to or for in the usual sense), I do believe that healing is not only possible, but is the work survivors are most involved in for the duration of their life times.

I hope you will spend some time reviewing the information below if you already read it in May 2009 when it was first posted.  If this is your first time encountering these links on my blog, please enjoy!!  Please carry along in your thinking the recently posted information on the vagal nerve system in the body as it ties our body-based information directly to our stress response system, our compassionate caring system, our nervous system, our brain and our immune system.

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*COLLINS ON RESPONDING TO NEED – Part One

*COLLINS ON RESPONDING TO NEED – Part Two

*COLLINS ON RESPONDING TO NEED – Part Three

*COLLINS ON RESPONDING TO NEED – Part Four

*COLLINS ON RESPONDING TO NEED – Part Five

*COLLINS ON RESPONDING TO NEED – Part Six

**Attachment Styles and Caregiving from Collins Article

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