Description:
A highly-interactive guide to explore your attachment style, understand your internal patterns, and build lasting, secure relationships, from the esteemed author of The Power of Attachment.
"At our core, every one of us is designed for secure connection," writes attachment theory expert Diane Poole Heller, PhD. We all have the capacity to build deep and lasting relationships. But the trauma of early childhood experiences, especially from parents and caregivers, can challenge our ability to build healthy connections. The same skills we develop to cope as children can become the patterns that haunt our relationships as adults. In The Attachment Workbook, Dr. Heller offers a hands-on resource to create the secure relationships that are possible for each one of us. Dr. Heller offers an assessment to understand your attachment style--secure, avoidant, anxious/ambivalent, disorganized--and shares that many of us have more than one style or different styles for different relationships. More than 50 highly interactive exercises and reflections help us explore the superpowers of each style, the challenges, and strategies to build secure attachment. Dr. Heller writes, "It's not enough to simply understand attachment in our minds. Our nervous system learns by doing, by feeling, by practicing." This workbook helps us embody what we learn. "You're not broken or missing a piece," writes Dr. Heller. "You don't need to 'become' someone else. This is the good news about healing our attachment adaptations. Secure attachment is part of your biology." This workbook helps us uncover and strengthen our capacity for secure connection.Brief description:
Diane Poole Heller, PhD, is an established expert in the field of Adult Attachment Theory, the Somatic Experiencing(R) method of trauma resolution, and a synthesis of integrative healing methods. She is a trainer and presenter who offers workshops and educational materials on trauma, attachment models and their dynamics in childhood and adult relationships, and other topics.
For several decades, Dr. Heller has lectured and taught around the world as both a Somatic Experiencing trainer and special topics presenter, most recently with her popular DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning experience) series on Adult Attachment. She began her work with Dr. Peter Levine, founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment, now the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, and the Somatic Experiencing method of trauma resolution. As a senior faculty member for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, she teaches work based on Dr. Levine's model in the US and worldwide, including Denmark, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, Germany, and Australia. She weaves her 30 years of experience in the Diamond Approach spiritual practice with principles from the fields of body, mind, and spiritual sciences in a holistic approach to trauma healing. Her book Crash Course, a guidebook on how to resolve auto accident trauma, is used as a resource for healing many types of trauma, both in the US and internationally. Dr. Heller presents at national seminars and conferences, and is the author of numerous articles in the field, as well as the documentary "Surviving Columbine," featured on CNN. As president of DARe and Trauma Solutions, a psychotherapy training organization, she concentrates her efforts to support the helping community through an array of specialized psychotherapy topics. Learn more at dianepooleheller.com.Review Quotes:
Praise for The Power of Attachment:
"Written with great warmth and clarity, this beautiful book turns the scientific insights of attachment theory into practical healing and help for our most important relationships." ―Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Resilient "Diane Poole Heller proves herself a superb guide to the new exciting science of attachment theory. In clear, readable, touching prose, The Power of Attachment gives you the practical tools you need to understand yourself and your partner at the deepest level. It has the power to change your life." ―Terrence Real, author of Us