Top Highlights

• how did I get here? What’s keeping me here? And how do I move forward? This book is therefore structured to help you answer those questions in exactly that order.
• For example, how we feel our emotions is down to our genetic make-up, how stable our early life experiences were, how we were taught about emotions
• and soothed when young, and what stresses and strains we live through.
• The wheels of who we are are set in motion before we’re born. DNA reportedly accounts for 20–60 per cent of temperament – how sociable, emotional, energetic, distractible and tenacious we are. However, full-term babies are born when their brains are a third of their adult size, and brain development isn’t complete until our mid-twenties. Similar to...
• Daniel Siegal, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, says babies and children need to be safe, soothed, seen and secure.