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FREE ATTACHMENT QUIZ
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Power of Attachment Book

CREATE DEEP & LASTING INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

Heal attachment wounds to increase healthy communication, intimacy and genuine connection in relationships.

READY TO LEARN EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR HEALING ATTACHMENT WOUNDS?

Relational wounding or trauma can leave us feeling utterly isolated and disconnected. 

In her book, The Power of Attachment, Dr. Diane Poole Heller provides readers with practical tools and simple strategies to help you better understand yourself and your partner. Learn how to address unhealthy patterns and behaviors that are the result of relational wounding and misattunements.

Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

  • Discover how early attachment wounds relate to painful patterns that play out again and again in our adult relationships
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the language and characteristics of the various attachment styles––including ways you can begin to track your own behaviors and skills
  • Learn practical skills and corrective exercises to restore and strengthen secure attachment in yourself and others
  • Discover how it’s possible to heal relational wounds and get help for our most important, intimate relationships
  • Begin a journey to greater intimacy, wholeness and resilience

Drawing on expertise from Dr. Heller’s 30-plus years of research, clinical work and training programs, The Power of Attachment serves as a guide for your own healing journey back to secure attachment, emotional resilience and deeper connection.

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Diane Poole Heller - The Power of Attachment Book

BUY DR. DIANE POOLE HELLER’S BOOK NOW!

Equally beneficial for clinicians and anyone on their own healing journey, The Power of Attachment offers an in-depth, practical guide to attachment theory––filled with simple tools and practical exercises to help you better understand you and your partner at the deepest level.

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The Power of Attachment has been translated into multiple languages including, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, German, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. For more information, please contact Sounds True.

PRAISE FOR THE POWER OF ATTACHMENT

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"Filled with wise guidance based on decades of clinical experience and scientific training, Dr. Poole Heller provides a wealth of clear, practical tools that anyone can use to improve their relationships and enrich their lives.”
RONALD D. SIEGEL, PsyD
Assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School; Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices For Everyday Problems
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“Written with great warmth and clarity, this beautiful book turns the scientific insights of attachment theory into practical healing and help for our most important relationships. It is full of examples, experiential exercises, and deep insights into the lingering effects of childhood. Dr. Heller has a depth of heart, intellect, and experience that is rare and remarkable, and it shows on every page.”
RICK HANSON, PhD
Author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
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“Diane Poole Heller has given us a new primer on attachment theory that breaks down some basic concepts for readers. She describes the characteristics of the various attachment styles and gives readers some elementary ways to begin to track their own behaviors and skills. The chapter specifically devoted to understanding attachment in relationships can serve as a good introduction for couples or anyone interested in coupling. Diane’s warm and personal writing style makes this an easy read.”
STAN TATKIN, PsyD, MFT
Developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT) and author of Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
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“Diane’s qualities of warmth, energy, caring and insight have benefited thousands of her clients and students over the years. Her gifts and wisdom are ever-present throughout a book that will provide you with an accessible yet exemplary framework for identifying your own unique, sometimes complex attachment struggles, delivered with Diane’s wit and breezy, unpretentious tone. The included exercises will certainly help you rediscover your true, embodied self, and will guide you to renegotiate your own obstacles to connections with others.

It is a book for therapists who work with attachment issues with their clients. It is equally for those of us beginning new relationships, and for those of us who are ending relationships–and learning and healing from those endings.”
PETER A. LEVINE, PhD
It is Author of the bestselling Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma; In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness; and Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
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“We blame ourselves or our partners when intimacy goes south without awareness of the unconscious relationship template that organizes those failures. With clear illustrations and practical exercises, Diane Poole Heller helps you understand and change this powerful inner operating system that came from your childhood attachment history, thereby defusing the mines in the minefields that love has been for most of us.”
RICHARD SCHWARTZ, PhD
Founder of the Internal Family Systems method and author of You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For
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THE ATTACHMENT WORKBOOK

Designed as a hands-on companion to The Power of Attachment that also works on its own, The Attachment Workbook offers more than 50 practical exercises, guided reflections and audio meditations to help you recognize your attachment patterns, understand your automatic responses to closeness and conflict, and practice new ways of relating that build safety, trust and connection.

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Available in paperback and ebook. Whether you’re exploring attachment for your own healing or looking for practical resources to share with clients, The Attachment Workbook is designed to meet you where you are.

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HEALING YOUR ATTACHMENT WOUNDS:

Why do we experience recurring struggles in our relationships? And why do traumatic events often awaken or amplify our fear, anger, isolation and helplessness?

In this in-depth audio learning program, Dr. Heller brings together attachment style theory and trauma resolution to help us understand and benefit from their complementary principles and methods.

With practical examples and easy-to-follow exercises, this program invites you to begin your own healing journey.

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HEALING YOUR ATTACHMENT WOUNDS:

How To Create Deep And Lasting Intimate Relationships

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ABOUT DR. DIANE POOLE HELLER

Diane Poole Heller PhD is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.

Her signature approach—Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience™ (DARe)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.

Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.

She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships and The Attachment Workbook. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.

Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped countless people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.

She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.

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