The Power of Attachment

How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

By: Diane Poole Heller PhD, Peter A. Levine

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our daily emotional landscape, our relationships, and how we feel about ourselves. And in the wake of a traumatic event - such as a car accident, severe illness, loss of a loved one, or experience of abuse - that attachment style can deeply influence what happens next.

In The Power of Attachment, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, a pioneer in attachment theory and trauma resolution, shows how overwhelming experiences can disrupt our most important connections - with the parts of ourselves within, with the physical world around us, and with others.

The good news is that we can restore and reconnect at all levels, regardless of our past.

Here, you'll learn key insights and practices to help you restore the broken connections caused by trauma; get embodied and grounded in your body; integrate the parts of yourself that feel wounded and fragmented; emerge from grief, fear, and powerlessness to regain strength, joy, and resiliency; and reclaim access to your inner resources and spiritual nature.

©2019 Diane Poole Heller; foreword copyright 2019 by Peter A. Levine (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Get ready to journal!

This was a very introspective journey.

I appreciated the explanations and descriptions are given for each attachment type, along with examples of what it looks like in partnerships along with the visualizations to truly process how you feel.

For a long time, I knew that there were things that made me uncomfortable in my relationships. But I couldn’t figure out the source. During this listen, I was able to truly sit down with myself and examen my early life and realize that the “nurture” part of life brought me here.

I would and have recommend this book to friends and family and intend on listening again this spring,

Excellent Content, Robotic Narrator

Building on the book Attached, this book provides a deeper understanding of Attachment issues with concrete questions to ask oneself about their own attachment issues, as well as their partner's. The narrator, unfortunately, sounds like a robot, but once you can settle into Chapter 1, the voice gets better.

Informative and healing!

Written with so much depth and compassion. Highly recommend if you want grow and also help others through the journey of life!

I now know more about attachment in relationships

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I now have an understand of how my past attachment patterns may have influenced me in forming relationships or the lack there of. I feel I now have knowledge that will help me form better relationships. Thank you Diane, thank you Peter.

Excellent

This is an excellent book for therapists and individuals alike. I love the practical information about how to help form more secure attachments, individualizing treatment for each attachment type

A different perspective on attachment

Great explanation on different attachments but seem like all have similarities initially but the farther you get in the book, the more broken down it becomes. Learned a lot even with some of the repetition.

Unbiased Enlightenment

Really nice soothing voice that helped keep the information flowing. Great resource for building a meaningful conversation about attachments with everyone involved in your life.

Can’t believe how much this book helped me

This book use the theory to ex play the situation and offers practical and useful exercises to alleviate the symptoms.

God, wish I found this book sooner.

Best self-help/relationship book ever!

Literally this book is Word for Word what I needed to hear about my childhood and those that I love around me. Some how each chapter was relevant to part of the relationships I am in. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to grow in understanding of why your are situational environment growing up is affecting you today and how to heal from wounds you may not of even realized you had from that point in your life.

Very practical and hopeful

Very practical and hopeful. No judgment and leads to better understanding. Would come back to listen often.