Mental Health
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What Happens During The Parent-Child Bonding Process?
The Power Of Affection Some activities elicit love, affection, and attachment during the parent and child bonding. For example, when parents show affection towards their children, it induces the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin is a vital hormone that significantly helps the child’s brain development. For instance, growing up, a child that experiences lots of affection will become an adult with healthy self-esteem, positive social interaction, and positive emotional response. In a previous post, I discussed the importance of parent-child bonding. But, in this article, I will discuss what happens during the bonding process, why it is essential between the parent and child, and how it dictates how the child will navigate life as an adult.…
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How Trauma May Affect A Person’s Perception
We define perception as the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. How Can Trauma Affect Our Perception? Primarily, when we endure traumatic situations, some more severe than others, it may affect our thought patterns and cause us to have convictions about certain situations. When we hold onto our tightly held convictions, sometimes it may be hard to change them, and these beliefs become your perceptions. When you interact with other people concerning the same issue, you may have a different view from the other person. In most cases, your tightly held convictions make it very difficult to see the other person’s…
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How To Prevent Mental And Emotional Health Issues In Our Next Generation
How can we prevent the next generation from living with mental and emotional health issues? Is that possible? Yes!! The next generation can be healthy mentally and emotionally. Still, it will take a committed group effort from everyone, from parents to educators to the healthcare industry, to make this happen. Characteristics Of A Person Living In A Healthy Mental And Emotional State What Are The Steps To Nurturing A Healthy Next Generation It all starts at home, and the responsibility, first and foremost, falls on the parents. At LNJ Life Coaching, we are creating awareness regarding parent-child bonding and its importance for the child’s healthy psychological development. Secondly, parents, educators, and caregivers…
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How To Overcome Unhealthy Fear And Live With A Sound Mind
The Fight Or Flight Response Adrenaline and Cortisol are important hormones because they help the body protect itself from danger. These hormones are commonly known as ‘the fight or flight response’. They work like this; when you are faced with a frightening moment, your first response may be to fight or run away. These hormones help us to decide what to do and what happens is that our adrenaline shoots up and puts us in survival mode to protect us from danger. In this respect, fear can be a good emotion because it helps us to make a safe and decisive decision. But fear can become unhealthy when our Adrenaline…
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How To Build A Good Emotional Health
As an adult, where does your EMOTIONAL FULFILLMENT comes from – It should come from God!! As a child, that emotional fulfillment should come from your parents. In the way of parent-child bonding, during this bonding process, there is a hormone that the body releases for both parent and child called Oxytocin which helps in the bonding process. Emotional fulfillment is a reflection of your mental and emotional well-being. To be emotionally fulfilled means you have a healthy sense of well-being, you have an increased sense of self-confidence, and healthy stress management. Most of us place our emotional fulfillment and happiness in material things, and the opposite is true. We must find emotional…
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The Importance Of Parent-Child Bonding
The parent-child bonding process is the genesis of the child’s psychological development. Therefore, the absence of the bonding process could, in fact, produce stress and trauma in a child’s life. In addition, experiences such as neglect, abandonment, and lack of communication could be subtle ways the child may experience trauma. The Bonding Process When there is an active bonding process, both parent and child produce an essential hormone and chemical called Oxytocin, a vital chemical needed for bonding. So in addition, are necessary chemicals called Dopamine, Serotonin, and Endorphins which all play a pivotal role in the child’s brain development. These chemicals help in the development of the child’s brain and help them function successfully in society. They…
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How God Heals Us From Traumatic Symptoms
Traumatic symptoms are symptoms that a large amount of the population suffers from – after a recent study, children as young as five years old were rushed to the hospital for battling with suicidal thoughts. A person is made of spirit, soul, and a human body. Genesis 2:7 – And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Our human body enables us to survive in the material world, and it ‘houses’ both our spirit and soul. However, our spirit is ‘dead’ at birth until we believe in Jesus and come to salvation; we then become ‘born again.’ (John 3:3) …
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How Our Upbringing Affects The Health Of Our Psychological Development
As a therapist, when I work with clients who may be suffering from issues such as unhealthy fear, anxiety, low-self esteem, pride, emotional dependency, depression, or insecurities, my first instinct is to probe into their childhood to find out if they went through trauma growing up. Research shows that 98% of the population has endured trauma growing up – whether it is direct or indirect trauma which greatly affects our Psychological Development. What Is Trauma In The Psychological Context? Going through very stressful, frightening, or distressing events. What Are Some Examples Of Trauma Repeatedly hearing negative words or phrases Verbal abuse Mental abuse Sexual abuse Physical abuse Lack of communication…
