Why Do Couples Grow Apart and What Can You Do About It?
When we all seem to be spending considerable energy trying…
What Attachment Styles Are Most Compatible?
Are you anxiously attached? Avoidant? Disorganized? What do all of…
What Is Disorganized/Unresolved Attachment?
Attachment styles represent the strategy that we learned as infants in order to keep our caregivers in close physical proximity. Human infants literally can’t last more than an hour or so without having an adult caregiver nearby. Babies MUST keep this in their awareness and work hard to keep their caregiver close.Different caregivers respond to different methods in order to maintain contact. If you have a parent who is highly distractible, for example, it would pay off to intermittentl […]
Attachment Parenting vs. Secure Attachment: A Lack of Equivalency
I recently came across an amazing article that really helps to delineate the difference between attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that promotes specific behaviors like co-sleeping, breastfeeding and “wearing” your baby, versus secure attachment, which is more about repeated patterns of moment-to-moment attunement in interactions and how repairs are made (or not made). While many parents, myself included, would like to think that practicing attachment parenting guaran […]
Interview with Dr. Stan Tatkin on Shrinkrap Radio – Great Explanation of His Roots
For anyone who has wondered how Dr. Tatkin came to…
What I’m Reading Now – Your Brain on Love
Okay the truth is a you can’t really “read” this…
The Magic of Secure Attachment in Adulthood
By now many of us have heard about the idea…
The Amazing Effect of Human Touch
We all know on an intuitive level the power of…
The Narcissistic Mother
What do we require of our mothers? Certainly not perfection.…