Heal Your Anxious Attachment

Name: Heal Your Anxious Attachment
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ISBN: 9781648482069

Release Past Trauma, Cultivate Secure Relationships, and Nurture a Deeper Sense of Self

By Jennifer Nurick

Therapist Jennifer Nurick offers a holistic, trauma-informed approach to healing anxious attachment, grounded in neuroscience, polyvagal theory, and mindfulness. Chapters move through finding safety in the body, rewiring core beliefs, inner child reparenting, spiritual and ancestral dimensions of healing, co-regulation for secure intimacy, and embodied communication skills. The book is aimed at people who recognize the anxious-avoidant trap in their relationships and want to develop an earned secure attachment through sustained inner work.

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Concepts

Polyvagal Theory
A framework by Stephen Porges describing three nervous system states (ventral vagal, sympathetic, dorsal vagal) that govern how safe we feel and how we connect with others.
Anxious-Avoidant Trap
The self-reinforcing cycle where anxious attachment pursues and avoidant attachment withdraws, causing both partners to trigger each other's deepest fears.
Internal Working Model
The unconscious mental blueprint formed in childhood that shapes expectations of relationships, driving how we interpret and respond to our partners.
Reparenting
The practice of consciously giving your inner child the nurturing, validation, and safety that was missing in early caregiving relationships.
Co-Regulation
The process by which two nervous systems mutually influence each other's state, forming the biological basis of feeling calm and safe in the presence of a trusted person.

Chapters

Introduction
Chapter 1. Your Anxious Attachment Is An Adaptation
Chapter 2. Find a Safe Haven In Your Body
Chapter 3. Your Mind Can Script Your Future
Chapter 4. Heal Emotionally With A New Parenting Experience
Chapter 5. Spiritual Longing For Compassion And Connection With Ancestors
Chapter 6. How Co-Regulation Cultivates Secure Intimacy
Chapter 7. Reaching Out For Connection
Chapter 8. When Your Anxiety Is Triggered In Relationship
Chapter 9. Communicate Through Your Anxiety
Chapter 10. Communicate Through Your Anxiety
Chapter 11. Meaningful Connections In The World Abound
Acknowledgements
References

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Topics

Attachment Theory, Secure Attachment, Insecure Attachment, Anxious Preoccupied, Dismissive Avoidant, Fearful Avoidant, Internal Secure Attachment, Attunement, Internal Working Model, Relational Distance, Interdependence, Counter Dependency, Codependent, Anxious Adaptation, Securely Attached, Hero's Journey, Safe Haven, Sensing Openness, Exploring Touch, Felt Sense, Interoception, Deep Listening, Neuroplasticity, Core Beliefs, Unconscious Beliefs, Supportive Beliefs, Inner Child, Reparenting, Inner Parent, Inner Healing, Label Emotions, Joy of Life, Self-Compassion, Self-Criticism, Loving-Kindness Meditation, Forgiveness, Sacred Healing, Regulation, Co-Regulation, Self-Regulation, Secure Intimacy, Neuroception, Dorsal Vagal, Sympathetic, Ventral Vagal, Calm Breath, Holding Hands, Anxious-Avoidant Trap, Avoidant Adaptation, Anxious Adaptation, Protest Behavior, Withdrawing Behavior, Core Emotions, Attachment Needs, Negative Cycle, Pursue-Withdraw, Cycle Breaking, Secure Relationship, Healing Triggers, Boundaries, Flexible Boundaries, Porous Boundaries, Rigid Boundaries, Embodied Boundaries, Internal Boundaries, Interpersonal Boundaries, Empathic Listening, Self-Validation, Clear Request, Being Assertive, Embodied Communication, Meaningful Communication

Published

February 1, 2024

Publisher

New Harbinger Publications

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