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Social Baseline Theory and the Power of Connection with Dr. Jim Coan

Transforming Trauma

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Being Interdependent Facilitates Independence

I just had an image come up. I don't know if it's appropriate. You can tell me if this tracks with what you're talking about here. But I even just had this image of like a toddler learning to walk or a baby learning to walk. And it's kind of like what, you know, this is skill that we want to develop. We want to be able to walk on our own as infants or babies. So we have this false choice that our culture has sort of presented us in some weird way that being dependent on others means you're not independent,. That's not how it works. Being dependent on others facilitates independence.

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