Life in a broken world leaves us singing a song of scarcity. I have never encountered a pair of eyes that have been met with as much love as they needed. I have never met a person whose nervous system hasn’t been shaped by some scarcity of connection. None of us receives all the love we need. And we carry that lack of love as distress in our nervous systems. Lack of co-regulation early in life forms neural pathways that sink into stress and shutdown easily and often.
