Hi! Given that avoidant attachment can arise from having an abusive parent, does this often go hand in hand with savior complex - where a person greatly compromises their boundaries to do for others. How can a person with this condition be made to realize that they must put their oxygen mask on first?
I am a retired LCSW, with an MSW from the UNC School of Social Work, the university where the Board of Trustees sabotaged one of the greatest feminist/antiracist journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones. My daughter Marie (21) and I have started a women's alliance for shifting society more effectively toward a multicultural, collaborative, health-centered one. We believe the Dr Jill Bolte Taylor work and your Therapist Uncensored way of persuasively teaching the public to take ownership of our mental health and relationship/community health is a phenomenal path for progress. And that the national attack on the movement for The 1619 Project, and centering Black lives and the lives of marginalized populations creates a teaching/change opportunity that could help really move the social justice world to more seriously COLLABORATE to counteract the antiscience/antivax/conspiratorial people who are buying into Trumpism. We have had great success for the last 18months bringing people together with this message: None of us are free, unless all of us are free--Fannie Lou Hamer. Can you address the necessity of intersectional, compassion/curiosity centered, women-led work such as ours: The SisterScene Creative Justice Community, that we co-lead, with a Black mother, MBA and her daughter who is a professioal women's soccer player? They are not traditionally mental-health centered (Pinto Family and they are still Christian), and yet our two families (across faith/race/personality differences) are SOLIDLY in agreement that both Dr. Jill