Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

Why do we experience recurring struggles in our relationships? And why do traumatic events―such as a physical injury, emotional threat, loss of a loved one, or other life crisis―so often awaken or amplify our sense of fear, anger, isolation, or helplessness? From our earliest years, teaches Diane Poole Heller, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our intimate relationships, with our children, and at work.

And traumatic events can deeply affect that core relational blueprint.