Module Seven

Acceptable Difference and Distance

Becoming a whole person is a gradual process of individuation. This is a life-long journey of finding your authentic self, balanced by with the need for Belonging and Trust.

When we are small, we wrap our arms around our parent legs and won’t let go. As adolescents, we push our parents as far away as we can. The rate and intensity of separation in young children can define the rest of their lives.

This creates either Acceptable Distance or destructive distance.

As children, and as adults, our needs for connection and distance are very unique and different. Depending on our childhood, the dance of connection in our adult life can unfold in many ways.

Rethinking Attachment Theory

Through the lens of TCM and Qing Zhi Bing theory, a person’s attachment style is based on their Pin Ge or their Character, and the specific traumatic experiences (Qi Wounds) they have experienced. Attachment Theory offers just four styles or adaptation to long term connection, bonding and trust.

This is a good beginning, but with a deeper understanding of developmental psychology, and applying a physiology (predictable processes and needs) that includes sentience, cognition, emotionality, and the long-term effect of specific forms or trauma, how we understand and restore healthy attachment is much more individualized.

Supporting Neurodivergent Journeys

It is likely that 1 in 4 people is diagnostically Neurodivergent in some way. Although we are all unique in many ways, Neurodivergence describes a different set of needs that are much more than just preferences. A divergent path is not about better or right, it is about the freedom to learn and grow in as yet undiscovered ways.

This can become Acceptable Difference or a social impasse of difference.

Acceptable Difference and Distance is an important conversation to have. If you were to recapitulate each of your primary relationships, the ones you will never forget, what do they show you about connection in your life.

Module Seven Content:
  • Becoming a whole person 
  • Trust, Bonding, and Belonging Adaptations
  • Rethinking Attachment Theory
  • Bonding Adaptations and Sexuality
  • Abandonment is Soul Crushing
  • The Gifts and Challenges of Neurodivergent Existence
  • Supporting Neurodivergent Journeys
  • A Closing Circle – Seven – Archetypes, Genders, and Contemporary Traditions

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