safe & social + flight/fight = play

Normalization doesn't really fix the issue. But it does help to make sense of it.

Validation isn't exactly easy or natural, maybe especially considering one's upbringing. You may not have grown up in...

We're strangers to ourselves. To ourselves on a personal level. To ourselves on an interpersonal level. We can't handle ...

YES! It is absolutely possible to co-regulate with a pet.