Psychological
Does safety in childhood build something that lasts?
When people talk about resilience, they often mean toughness: the ability to push through. But in Siegel's model, resilience isn't about endurance. It's about how quickly and flexibly your nervous system recovers after stress. And that capacity gets built, or not, in the first years of life.
What secure attachment gives a child is not the absence of stress, but the presence of a buffer that teaches the brain how to return to equilibrium.— Daniel Siegel
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The thinker
Interpersonal Neurobiology Pioneer
Daniel Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, known for his work connecting attachment science to brain development.
Based on Dan Siegel: The Neurological Basis of Behavior, the Mind, the Brain and Human Relationships, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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