The Power of Attachment
by Diane Poole Heller
Attachment styles explained with exercises for moving toward security: body-based practices, visualisations, and specific repair work for avoidant, ambivalent and disorganised patterns. More somatic than most attachment books, from a trauma-therapy background.
Read it if…
you want to work on your attachment style, not just know it.
Skip it if…
you are sceptical of somatic exercises.
Three things you will actually use
- Attachment patterns can be repaired in adulthood.
- The body holds the style; work with the body.
- Secure attachment is a skill set, not a gift.
Do this first
Do the 'competent protector' visualisation in chapter two.
Our verdict
Attachment, somatically.
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