Polysecure

Jessica Fern is a psychotherapist, public speaker and trauma and relationship expert. In her international private practice, Jessica works with individuals, couples and people in multiple-partner relationships who no longer want to be limited by their reactive patterns, cultural conditioning, insecure attachment styles and past traumas, helping them to embody new possibilities in life and love.Naava Smolash, who sometimes writes under the pen name Nora Samaran, is the author of Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture (AK Press, 2019).Eve Rickert is the co-author of More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory (Thorntree Press, 2014).

"Polysecure provides a roadmap for people who want to establish emotionally intimate and securely attached relationships with multiple partners. One of the most important insights is that secure attachment is a product of relationship experiences, rather than relationship structures." —Dr. Elisabeth Sheff, author of The Polyamorists Next Door, Stories from the Polycule, When Someone You Love is Polyamorous, and Children in Polyamorous Families

• IntroductionPART ONEChapter One: An Overview of Attachment TheoryChapter Two: The Different Dimensions of AttachmentChapter Three: The Nested Model of Attachment and Trauma PART TWOChapter Four: Consensual NonmonogamyChapter Five: Attachment and NonmonogamyChapter Six: The Importance of Attachment in Consensual NonmonogamyPART THREEChapter Seven: The Foundations of Being Polysecure in Your RelationshipsChapter Eight: The HEARTS of Being PolysecureChapter Nine: The S in HEARTS—Secure Attachment with SelfChapter Ten: Common Questions and Final ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex