Falling in love with your parts

As human beings we are born hard-wired with our core emotions intact and to be attached. Whether our early attachments and environment exposed us to varying degrees of chaos that felt unsafe, or our surroundings gave us all of the security we needed, we all developed parts of ourselves that helped us manage what we were exposed to in early childhood, when we were essentially fully dependent on our caretakers and had no ready made tools of our own. Without the early attachments we had in our lives, and the parts of us that grew in order to help us manage things that we were unable to make sense of so that we could keep getting our basic needs met, we would not have survived and thrived to be the functional adults that manage our day-to-day lives today.