Healing Your Attachment Wounds with Dr. Diane Poole Heller

Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 10 a.m.

Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson focus on two of our most important subjects, attachment wounds and traumatic experiences, with a longtime therapist, trainer of therapists, and world-class expert on attachment theory: Dr. Diane Poole Heller.\xa0\nAbout our Guest: Dr. Heller focuses on using somatic, or body-based, approaches to help people resolve the painful experiences and negative patterns that hold us back. Her work on adult attachment has created a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop the secure attachment skills that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.\nKey Topics:\n2:30: What is attachment, and why should we care?\n4:45: Secure attachment.\n7:50: Avoidant attachment.\xa0\n12:30: The potential for movement toward secure attachment.\n16:00: Ambivalent (or anxious) attachment.\n20:45: Disorganized attachment.\xa0\n24:15: Somatic approaches to attachment wounds.\xa0\n29:50: Allowing the body to move out of threat.\n34:10: Secure attachment skills.\n38:55: Repatterning ourselves.\xa0\n47:20: Becoming more secure in connection.\xa0\n50:30: Three questions to help calm relational activation.\n55:45: A message to your younger self.\n56:45: Recap\nSupport the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.\nSponsors:\nFrom Boston Globe Media comes a new podcast, TURNING POINTS, a show about navigating mental health. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.\nFind the new CBD+ performance gummies and the whole dosist health line-up today at dosisthealth.com. Use promo code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase.\xa0\nJoin\xa0over a million people using BetterHelp, the world\u2019s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!\xa0\nWant to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.\nConnect with the show:\n\nSubscribe on iTunes\n\nFollow Forrest on YouTube\n\nFollow us on Instagram\n\nFollow Forrest on Instagram\n\nFollow Rick on Facebook\n\nFollow Forrest on Facebook\n\nVisit Forrest's website