Kreed RevereFitting in asks the child to determine who they need to be in the relationship. Belonging allows the child to remain recognizable to themselves. If fitting in was the price of attachment, learning to belong to oneself may initially require distance.
Kreed RevereThe pain of losing contact with your child doesn't sit still. It moves. It reaches. It looks for a place to go. And almost universally, it keeps reaching toward the same place: the person who caused it.
Kreed RevereThere's a story most people tell about estrangement, but there's another version of the story, and it starts in a completely different place.
Kreed RevereControl is what fear looks like when it needs somewhere to go. Underneath almost every angry response is something more vulnerable: fear, grief, shame, helplessness.
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