Diane Poole Heller – författare

How traumatic events can break our vital connections—and how to restore love, wholeness, and resiliency in your life.From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our daily emotional landscape, our relationships, and how we feel about ourselves. And in the wake of a traumatic event—such as a car accident, severe illness, loss of a loved one, or experience of abuse—that attachment style can deeply influence what happens next.In The Power of Attachment, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, a pioneer in attachment theory and trauma resolution, shows how overwhelming experiences can disrupt our most important connections— with the parts of ourselves within, with the physical world around us, and with others.The good news is that we can restore and reconnect at all levels, regardless of our past.Here, you’ll learn key insights and practices to help you:• Restore the broken connections caused by trauma• Get embodied and grounded in your body• Integrate the parts of yourself that feel wounded and fragmented• Emerge from grief, fear, and powerlessness to regain strength, joy, and resiliency• Reclaim access to your inner resources and spiritual nature"We are fundamentally designed to heal," teaches Dr. Heller. "Even if our childhood is less than ideal, our secure attachment system is biologically programmed in us, and our job is to simply find out what’s interfering with it—and learn what we can do to make those secure tendencies more dominant."With expertise drawn from Dr. Heller’s research, clinical work, and training programs, this book invites you to begin that journey back to wholeness.

A highly-interactive guide to explore your attachment style, understand your internal patterns, and build lasting, secure relationships, from the 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. 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. The Attachment Workbook offers: • A quiz to help you understand your attachment style—secure, avoidant, anxious/ambivalent, or disorganized • Insights that many of us have more than one attachment style and different styles for different relationships • More than 50 highly interactive exercises, including audio meditations to download or stream • Invitations to celebrate the superpowers of our attachment style • Reflections that help us identify where our attachment style sabotages our relationships • Strategies to build secure attachment and stronger relationships. 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.