Secondhand Blues

摘要

[...] there is now neurological evidence that the apathy and withdrawal of mothers who have postpartum depression show up in the baby's brain as an underdeveloped emotional region. The larger contribution comes from the ways we learn to regulate our own internal experience, which includes our explanatory style (the meaning we attach to life experiences), our cognitive style (howwe think and use information), our coping style (how we manage stress and adversity) , our problem-solving style, and our relational style. On the contrary, we are selling our home so we can semiretire (at age 50) to live in our RV Orion and her husband already took ayear off to travel the country in their custom-outfittedbus.Shehas written a book about the experience, Queen of the Road, and spends time everyweek talking to book clubs all over the country.