A story from Peter Levine: when a baby cries at being passed to a relative, the adult's instinct is to soothe the discomfort away rather than honor what the baby is communicating. This clip traces how, from the earliest age, we're taught to override our own signals and "appear calm" — at the cost of ignoring real needs. A small moment that reveals how nervous-system suppression gets learned long before we have words for it.
Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4
