Dissociation | How Dissociation Was Adaptive

Dissociation, disconnecting from our emotions, disconnecting from our bodily sensations, and all the other challenges we face in this area have actually had a protective function. Lack of connection was your adaptation to early environmental failure, often at a pre-verbal stage. Feeling you emotions and body felt unsafe, so you learnt to disconnect. In this video you will learn how to heal, by being able to hold the patterns that keep you stuck with great compassion, by seeing their old protective function.
The most core need that we have is the need for connection, to feel loved and cared for. And at the same time, that is also our greatest fear.
So at one point in your life, may be as a small child or even a baby, at a pre-verbal stage, it made sense for you to withdraw and to disconnect, but when you continue disconnecting from your body, from your emotions, your entire life, then this very helpful survival mechanism that you developed now becomes the source of the problems. And it's important that we don't pathologize this tendency towards disconnection. Now, the most common word that is used in psychology and psychotherapy, for disconnection is dissociation. And there is a whole spectrum of dissociation that goes on for people with this earliest survival style where connection has been disrupted. But if you look very closely at dissociation, at its core, at its most basic and protective function you will see that it has really been a blessing in disguisje - dissociation is that capacity which helps human beings bear the unbearable.
Please share this video if it has been helpful to you! And feel the goodness of sharing and connecting with trusted others.
Big hug, Anna
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[@gailkpiano]

so helpful, thank you

[@FlowandPurpose]

Thank you for taking the time and letting me know. I am very happy you find it helpful!