Dr. Robert Glover
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1,225 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Sep 2025
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You've had a couple, you know they can't take care of themselves.
And so they're completely dependent on the attentiveness and the skills of their caregivers and just an abundance of surroundings where they get their needs met.
Every child has experiences that feel like abandonment, that feel like death, that trigger a state of anxiety, and or lead to a sense of internalized shame, where the child internalizes, I'm the cause of that, I must be bad.
That's why mommy left and doesn't come back, or that's why daddy's angry, or that's why I'm cold and I don't get... We don't think that is purely emotional internalization that gets stored up in our amygdala, that you know is the source of our fight-flight-freeze mechanism.
So that stores up all emotional memory.
And so that can build up states of anxiety because that's what the amygdala does.
It keeps us ready to fight, flee, or freeze.
It's a survival mechanism.
So most of us carry some degree of anxiety and shame from infancy, childhood, into adolescence, and into adulthood.
We all develop survival mechanisms.
We try to do two things.
Everybody does.
Now, we're not conscious of doing this, but one thing we're trying to do is how do we soothe and manage the discomfort we feel right now?
That state of anxiety, dis-ease, discomfort.
I sucked my thumb until I was in kindergarten.
So that's one way I manage my states of anxiety.
Some children might cry, some might eat, some might perform, some might sleep, some might be depressed.
Every human being tries to manage those uncomfortable feelings.
The second thing we try to do is try to, using a very, very undeveloped brain, develop strategies to prevent those uncomfortable situations from happening again.
And again, there's any number of ways a human might do that, a child might do it.
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