Concepts
- Original Relational Blueprint
- The implicit model of relationships formed in early childhood that becomes the nervous system's default expectation of how connection, danger, and care will operate in adult partnerships.
- Attachment Adaptation
- The accommodations people make to survive early relational deficits — emotional numbing, hypervigilance, people-pleasing — that become limiting patterns in adult intimacy.
- Disorganized Attachment
- The attachment style that emerges when a caregiver is simultaneously the source of comfort and the source of fear, producing an adult who both seeks and dreads closeness.
- Secure Base Restoration
- Heller's therapeutic goal of rebuilding the nervous-system capacity for genuine security that early trauma interrupted, through specific somatic and relational exercises.
- Co-Regulation in Partnership
- The process by which two partners regulate each other's nervous systems through proximity, attunement, and consistent responsiveness — the biological mechanism underlying felt security.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Secure Attachment
- Chapter 2. Avoidant Attachment
- Chapter 3. Ambivalent Attachment
- Chapter 4. Disorganized Attachment
- Chapter 5. Attachment Styles and Romantic Partnerships
Rating
Topics
- Attachment Theory, Secure Attachment, Insecure Attachment, Anxious Preoccupied, Dismissive Avoidant, Fearful Avoidant, Broken Connection, Contingency, Implicit Memory, Threat Response, Polyvagal Theory, Original Relational Blueprint, Autonomy, Interdependence, Attunement, Attachment Adaptation, Emotional Deglect, Dissociation, Gesture Inhibition, Co-Regulation, Freeze Response, Pursue-Withdraw Trap
Published
- March 12, 2019
Publisher
- Sounds True