The healthy sense of self neither needs to merge nor differentiate. Thru our mother’s capacity to receive us we develop “psychic skin” to contain our egos need to sense itself. Without this container we experience anxiety and desires to merge or run. Neither avoiding nor needing validation, healthy touch serves as a mirror and “psychic skin” to build love, healthy body image (ego) and holding at any age.

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