Learning Love

Name: Learning Love
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ISBN: 9781964508580

Build the Best Relationships of Your Life Using Integrated Attachment Theory

By Thais Gibson,Sjorland Gibson

Thais Gibson introduces her Gibson Integrated Attachment Theory—an expanded framework built on traditional attachment research that maps specific core wounds, subconscious needs, and emotional patterns to each attachment profile. The book explains how the subconscious mind stores early relational experiences and runs them as automatic programming in adult relationships, often without awareness. Structured exercises address reprogramming core wounds, adjusting expectations and boundaries, shifting coping mechanisms, and developing the communication habits that allow secure connection to take root.

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Concepts

Gibson Integrated Attachment Theory
Thais Gibson's expanded attachment framework that maps specific core wounds, subconscious needs, and emotional patterns to each attachment profile, going beyond style labels to the underlying programming.
Core Wounds
The deep, often unconscious beliefs about lovability and safety formed in early childhood that drive automatic emotional and behavioral responses in adult relationships.
Subconscious Reprogramming
The process of identifying and deliberately replacing early relational programming stored below conscious awareness — the mechanism Gibson argues makes lasting change possible.
Attachment Profiles
Detailed maps of how each attachment style operates across emotions, needs, expectations, boundaries, and coping strategies, providing a more nuanced picture than four simple categories.

Chapters

Introduction
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Attachment Theory
Chapter 2. Meet Your Subconscious Mind
Chapter 3. The Gibson Integrated Attachment Theory™ Profiles
Chapter 4. Reprogramming Your Core Wounds, Needs, and Emotional Patterns
Chapter 5. Reprogramming Expectations, Boundaries, and Coping Mechanisms
Chapter 6. How to Communicate Effectively
Chapter 7. You've Learned How to Love
Endnotes