Maternal Negativity and Child Maltreatment
Britt Novakowski 2022
In Western culture most people believe that mothers evolved to love all of their children instinctually and unconditionally.
In Western culture most people believe that mothers evolved to love all of their children instinctually and unconditionally.
I am on a retreat in the middle of Dartmoor. The week offers an opportunity to drop into the shadowlands of our unconscious minds and bodies, and to explore this inner terrain.
I knew that I was an animal. I had studied ecology and understood that I was part of the web of life. I had studied evolution and understood the processes that had forged humankind. But my understanding came from books, and it was not until I lived in Tanzania that it became real to my own body and mind.