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Love is a complex and multifaceted emotion that encompasses a range of feelings, attitudes, and behaviors. It can be experienced in various forms, including romantic love, familial love, platonic love, and self-love. Here are some key aspects of love:

Oxytocin is a hormone and neurotransmitter heavily involved in:

It is often called the “bonding hormone” or “love hormone,” although neuroscience shows its role is more complex than that simple label suggests. When Are Oxytocin Levels Released? Oxytocin release increases during: This is why physically and emotionally intimate relationships can create strong feelings of bonding and emotional attachment. Oxytocin and Romantic Relationships Research suggests oxytocin helps: In healthy… Read More Oxytocin is a hormone and neurotransmitter heavily involved in:

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Nucleus Accumbens is one of the brain’s key reward and motivation centres and plays a major role in:

It is part of the brain’s mesolimbic dopamine system, often called the reward pathway. What Does the Nucleus Accumbens Do? The nucleus accumbens helps the brain answer questions like: When something emotionally rewarding happens — such as: dopamine activity increases within this system. This creates: That is one reason early romantic attraction can feel euphoric or… Read More Nucleus Accumbens is one of the brain’s key reward and motivation centres and plays a major role in:

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Love, Attachment, and the Neurobiology of Human Connection

Why can love feel euphoric, addictive, calming, terrifying, healing, and emotionally overwhelming all at the same time? Modern neuroscience suggests that romantic attachment is not “just emotion.” It involves complex interactions between brain reward systems, attachment pathways, stress regulation networks, memory systems, hormones, and social bonding mechanisms. Over the last two decades, research reviews and… Read More Love, Attachment, and the Neurobiology of Human Connection

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Love Bombing, Idealisation, and the Emotional High–Crash Cycle

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“Love bombing” is a term now widely used to describe a pattern of overwhelming affection, attention, admiration, and emotional intensity early in a relationship. While the phrase itself is often used casually online, psychology and relationship research do recognise patterns of manipulative idealisation and devaluation that can occur in unhealthy or coercive dynamics. In the… Read More Love Bombing, Idealisation, and the Emotional High–Crash Cycle

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Situational Predators and Opportunists: When Vulnerability Attracts Exploitation

People who deliberately exploit vulnerability in others do exist, and psychology research does recognise patterns sometimes associated with grooming, coercive control, manipulation, fraud, or exploitative relationship behaviour. A more balanced and accurate way to describe it would be: Periods of major life change can leave people emotionally vulnerable. Divorce.Bereavement.Financial instability.Loneliness.Illness.Relocation.Emotional exhaustion after long-term stress or… Read More Situational Predators and Opportunists: When Vulnerability Attracts Exploitation

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Reinventing Yourself

The Garage Full of Fishing Rods Nearly two years. Nearly two years of waiting for someone to collect the life they left behind. The cupboards.The drawers.The forgotten paperwork.The random cables nobody understands.The clothes still hanging exactly where they were abandoned.And, of course, the garage. Ah yes… the garage. A shrine to fishing. Enough rods, reels,… Read More Reinventing Yourself

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“Don’t Discuss Our Relationship with Anyone” — A Serious Red Flag

One of the most dangerous things that can happen inside an unhealthy or abusive relationship is silence. Not peace.Not privacy. Silence. The kind of silence created when one person slowly conditions the other to: If you are repeatedly told: please pay attention. Because healthy relationships do not require enforced secrecy. Of course every couple deserves… Read More “Don’t Discuss Our Relationship with Anyone” — A Serious Red Flag

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Protection Doesn’t End After Divorce — It Continues for Your Safety

One of the biggest misconceptions people have about abusive or coercive relationships is that once the relationship ends, the danger automatically disappears. Unfortunately, psychology, neuroscience, and real-life experience often tell a very different story. For many people, separation and divorce are not the end of emotional pressure, intimidation, control, or fear. In fact, research consistently… Read More Protection Doesn’t End After Divorce — It Continues for Your Safety

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Good to Know the Guardia Civil Will Still Be Protecting Me When I Move Home

By Linda C J Turner, Therapist & Advocate — Linda C J Turner Trauma Therapist | Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Practitioner | Advocate for Women’s Empowerment ©Linda C J Turner

There is a strange kind of relief that comes when you realise safety does not end at the front door of one particular house. For a long time, “home” stopped feeling like a place of peace. It became somewhere filled with tension, uncertainty, hypervigilance, and the exhausting emotional mathematics of constantly assessing moods, reactions, and… Read More Good to Know the Guardia Civil Will Still Be Protecting Me When I Move Home

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Everyone Comes Into Your Life for a Reason… I’m Just Still Waiting for the Memo on the Last 32 Years

By Linda C J Turner, Therapist & Advocate — Linda C J Turner Trauma Therapist | Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Practitioner | Advocate for Women’s Empowerment ©Linda C J Turner

Apparently, everyone who walks into your life has a purpose. A teacher.A lesson.A blessing.A catalyst for growth. Lovely theory. Very neat. Very spiritual. Now someone please explain the last 32 years, because I seem to have missed the PowerPoint presentation. For three decades I apparently completed an advanced course in: No certificate yet. Still waiting… Read More Everyone Comes Into Your Life for a Reason… I’m Just Still Waiting for the Memo on the Last 32 Years

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