EP 116 — Diane Poole Heller: Attachment Styles and Relationships

Having trouble navigating your relationships with others and healing from traumas in your life? Diane Poole Heller shares her expertise in child and adult attachment styles so you can begin to live a fuller, more loving life in this very connective Living 4D conversation. Learn more about attachment styles by taking this free test on Diane’s website. Access Diane’s five-part video series on attachment styles by texting your phone number to 720.548.2229. Living 4D listeners : Receive a $50 discount on Diane’s DARe Module 1 and 2 online training sessions in 2021 by using the code CHEK50 at checkout. Find Diane via social media on Facebook . A BIG REQUEST : Please review and fill out our Living 4D Podcast survey . Complete it by Jan. 10, 2021 and you’ll be entered in a drawing to win a bundle of products from our awesome sponsors. Show Notes Diane wrestled with deeper questions — differences between necessary and unnecessary suffering and the inhumanity of man — as a child. (8:22) The wound of self-love. (16:14) Secure attachment skills and styles. (25:08) Are you available for a repair attempt? (36:07) Avoidant, insecure, attachment adaptations. (52:00) Even people with avoidant attachment styles need and want to feel connections. (1:06:32) Having a transition ritual is important for avoidant attachment types. (1:14:08) Ambivalent attachment styles: Overfocused on relationships. (1:22:58) Disorganized, disoriented attachment adaptations and the possibility of avoidant and ambivalent extremes. (1:50:07) Healing emotional wounds can affect families seven generations backward and forward. (2:01:13) Resources The development of attachment theory by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships and Healing Your Attachment Wounds by Diane Poole Heller The work of Fritz Perls , George Gurdjieff , Bonnie Badenoch and Mark Wolynn More resources for this episode are available on our website . Thanks to our awesome sponsors : Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code Thanks to our awesome sponsors : Paleovalley BIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL15 Organifi CHEK20 Wild Pastures Korrect SPIRITGYM Pique Life CHEK Institute We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.