This week our speaker was Carol Boyd. She shared with us her wisdom on the topics of attachment and the foundations of life. Carol came with a lot of knowledge from research as well as her personal experience with adopting her daughter Fuxia, who has brittle bone disease, from China 9 years ago. Carol shared with us the importance of attachment for infants, adults, and adopted children. She also taught us about the “holding” technique and what it can do for the attachment process. We looked at symptoms of children with attachment disorders and reactive attachment issues and ways that a caregiver can work with the child who have them.
The most impacting information for me this week was how important a secure attachment is and the different ways to develop one. A new understanding I received this week on children is how important it is for a child to have an attachment to a primary caregiver and how more often then is diagnosed children often will have attachment issues as their root causes of behavioural problems.
This week in my community life I enjoyed spending more time with Elin and Jillian. I feel like I am working really well with Samuel on our Innocents Lost project. I am learning a lot from working with him and am really enjoying it. I have learned more about all the beautiful places to walk around here this week. I am continuing to love my walks with Jessica.
I am looking forward to having Matt Rawlins come and speak to us next week on Justice and the nature and character of God. I have that he is an amazing speaker so I am looking forward to hearing all he will share with us.
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