Attunement and Containment – along with Rupture and Repair – are key building blocks for relationships that support the formation of healthy attachments. In this article, we’ll dive a little deeper into understanding containment and attunement and how these puzzle pieces fit into the larger concept of forming healthy attachments to the people we care about.
Love is always complicated, but rarely as complex as the love felt for a therapist. Although it’s often dismissed, buried, or even shamed, loving your …
Good attachments take work, and one of the hardest parts of building and maintaining satisfying and supportive relationships is repairing after rupture (i.e. conflict). It’s so hard, and conflict is so often avoided, that many of us have never experienced really good repair – or the way that it can deepen and strengthen our connection and trust with another person. Rupture is inevitable. Repair, however, takes work.
You’ve seen my Halloween themed ghost attachment styles doodles, now here’s the Valentine version! Purchase Valentine Digital PDF: Origins During my first year of graduate …
Most psychological measures and scales tend to make us think in black-and-white terms, but I like how this adaptation takes the attachment style grid and …
Attachment styles illustrated as ghosts. To learn more about attachment styles and how the way we tend to relate to others can be plotted on …