We are inherently loving beings. As psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn pointed out, as little ones, we need to love and have our love received, as well as to be loved. When we are not adequately received, or we feel unsafe to love, our loving nature can become stilted. Our hearts harden. We become driven by fear. […]

Once upon a time you were born. In the timeless months preceding this momentous event, you lived, grew, developed, learned – yes learned – within a dark, watery womb inside your mother. Life before birth is an essential period of rapid learning, as the little one prepares for the world he or she will be […]