Becoming What Holds Us

This is the First Installment of The Anatomy of Becoming Series.

This is about the people and experiences that become our emotional foundation. "What holds us" can be love, family, friendship, trauma, or even fear. It's about the forces that teach us how to connect before we understand connection ourselves.

Before we learn how to love, we first learn what love feels like. Our earliest relationship became the blueprint for how we trust, connect, fear abandonment, and allow ourselves to be vulnerable.

Before we ever understand the meaning of love, we experience its first version through the people who raised us. The Attachment we inherited follows to individuals whose paths intertwine despite carrying completely different ideas of what love should feel like