Break Free from Heartbreak Using Attachment Theory!
What you'll learn
- Identify your attachment style and start describing your experiences of heartbreak through the lens of attachment theory.
- Learn how core wounds affects us, identify your own "stories" and emotional patterns.
- Understand why we get so attached to the idea of someone, learn how a growth perspective can help you come out of heartbreak even more securely attached.
- Learn how to give to yourself what you are seeking from someone else, set standards for future romantic relationships.
Requirements
- No prerequisites required.
Description
Bev Mitelman is joined by her colleagues Dr.Emily Henderson and Mara Palermo (Certified Attachment Practitioners) to discuss heartbreak from the lens of attachment theory and how different attachment styles can result in varying grief responses. Attachment styles are categorized as secure, dismissive avoidant, anxious pre-occupied, and fearful avoidant. The attachment system offers a framework for understanding why some of us need to pull away in our grief, others may become completely overwhelmed, and others experience "complicated grief" and struggle immensely with processing their emotions and accepting reality.
In this course, heartbreak is framed as a process of navigating adjustment surrounding the loss of a significant emotional bond with another person, and it is mediated by the attachment system to help us survive. Attachment styles may indicate how we will experience a wide range of emotional responses when grieving, such as sorrow, love, yearning, avoidance, anxiety, fear, confusion, anger, numbness, and despair.
Key Lesson Concepts:
Attachment styles are developed in early childhood based on interactions and level of attunement we received from our primary caregivers.
Understanding attachment styles can help navigate heartbreak by developing an understanding of how core wounds affect our emotional patterns, coping behaviors and the "stories" we tell ourselves.
Learning about why we get so attached to the idea of someone, and how to give to yourself what you are seeking from others and set standards and boundaries for future romantic relationships.
Who this course is for:
- Adult learners seeking to improve the relationships in their life (especially the one to themselves!) by exploring core wounds, emotional patterns and behavior through the lens of attachment theory - with a focus on overcoming heartbreak and re-building the life you want!
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 8 Reviews
- 44 Students
- 2 Courses
As a child, I lived in a very unpredictable and chaotic environment where I never knew if I could rely on my parents to meet my emotional needs. This led me to absorb unhealthy relationship ideas based on what I was witnessing: I believed relationships were supposed to be unbalanced, uncertain, and overall chaotic. If you have an insecure attachment style, you probably relate to my experience, and navigating relationships can be particularly difficult for you.
Prior to becoming a Certified Attachment Practitioner, I was an Executive Leader, University Lecturer and published author, having obtained my Masters' Degree in 2006. I have spent my entire career (25+ years) working with adults in the realm of personal growth and professional development.
I am the founder of Securely Loved - a collective of Certified Attachment Practitioners dedicated to helping our clients move from an insecure attachment style towards secure attachment.
Instagram: @securely_loved