A focus is to help create a safe and
secure emotional bond between the couple in the marriage or love relationship, a connection that promotes safety and calms danger and threat.
The truth is, and the science now supports it, a secure marriage depends on
a secure emotional bond with your spouse.
You deserve a chance at a healthy
secure emotional bond with your partner.
This approach is founded on the understanding that every human being is hard - wired to need
a secure emotional bond with another, a need that is with us from cradle to grave.
With Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, we have a map to help couples stop the arguing, connect, and build a more
secure emotional bond.
In Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, the most powerful protection against an affair (and a host of other relational ills) lies in a more
secure emotional bond.
Once a couple has established
a secure emotional bond, they are naturally better able to manage conflict and stress.
I am fully trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples - a very powerful therapeutic approach aimed at creating and strengthening
a secure emotional bond between partners.
By explaining how attachment theory related to the unstable and violent actions of men, Nora presented a case for fostering less insecurity and vulnerability in society by nurturing
secure emotional bonds from a young age.
Once couples can repair these attachment injuries on their own they are much better able to maintain safe and
secure emotional bonding.
The emphasis in this method is on creating an atmosphere of emotional safety in the sessions in order to create
secure emotional bonds.
Not exact matches
emotional bonds, also known as
secure attachment, between the infant and parent (s).
Attachment Parenting is based in the practice of nurturing parenting methods that create strong
emotional bonds, also known as
secure attachment, between the infant and parent (s).
Attachment Parenting is based in the practice of nurturing parenting methods that create strong
emotional bonds, also known as
secure attachment, between children and their parent (s).
Secure attachments and synaptic connections that promote
emotional bonding are created in the first three years of life.
This important
emotional bond also provides children with a
secure base from which they can then safely explore their environment.
A
secure bond or connection with at least one other human being is the greatest
emotional need of every child.
There is an abundance of research on attachment theory (different from attachment parenting) that strongly supports the nurturing of a
secure and healthy
emotional bond between infants and their caregivers.
Attachment Parenting promotes an approach that applies sensitive parental response and practicing nurturing parenting methods that foster strong
emotional bonds — also known as
secure attachment — between children and their parents.
Through the creation of strong
bonds and attachments between parents and babies, we can help lay the foundations for healthy,
secure emotional relationships and create the opportunity for positive connections all over the world.
Would you like to support new parents and promote the importance of nurturing parents and babies to create loving
secure bonds and enhance their
emotional and physical wellbeing?
Numerous studies, including my own research on how couples successfully repair their love relationships, confirm that the ability to respond to a lover's
emotional signals builds
secure and lasting
bonds.
I work with you to expand and re-organize key
emotional responses, helping you to create an interactional shift and initiate new cycles of interaction, and working to foster the creation of a
secure bond between partners.»
According to attachment theory, a strong
emotional bond with parents during childhood, also known as a
secure attachment, is a precursor of
secure, empathic relationships in adulthood.
According to Johnson, «Perel never talks about the downside of nonmonogamy — like giving up real
emotional intimacy,
secure bonding, and the longing to really matter to your partner.
As mothers age, daughters with less ideal attachments may provide less
emotional support than those who are
secure in their
bonds.
At Stage 2, Restructuring, partners work to discover and share their attachment fears and longings, gradually finding ways to clearly express these to each other in a manner that facilitates the closeness,
emotional accessibility and responsiveness of a more
secure bond.
Finally, an insecure parent - child attachment has also been identified as a risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders.7 Attachment is defined as the intimate
emotional bond that forms between a child and caregiver and different patterns of attachment have been identified.8 An insecure, in contrast to a
secure, attachment is one in which the child experiences the caregiver as unpredictable or does not experience comfort from the relationship.
Sue Johnson, who developed emotionally focused therapy (based on attachment theory) for couples, describes the
emotional need we all have for
secure attachments or
bonding with others in her book Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy:
For all the couples out there, wishing for a more
secure, fulfilling
emotional bond or struggling with ongoing conflict and / or distance, do consider reaching out to an E.F.T. Certified Therapist.
We will assess your relationship strengths and concerns, talk about
emotional needs and why having a safe and
secure bond with your mate is of prime importance.
Ideally, children develop
secure attachment (a healthy
emotional bond) with caregivers.
Clear communication is considered foundational in good relationships, but in relationships with close
emotional ties, the ability to communicate with vulnerability is what creates intimacy and a deeper, more
secure bond.
While a
secure relationship with a teacher can not fully take the place of a close
emotional bond with a parent, research has found that students who believe their teachers care about them do better academically and emotionally.
All of this, taken together, promotes
emotional closeness and intimacy, feeling
secure in the relationship, and strengthens your
bonds, connections, and overall intimacy.
Many successfully transform persistent relational problems into
secure bonds through a deep
emotional understanding of each partner's inner experience.
A
secure bond with all its mental and physical health benefits, requires focused attention and timely
emotional responsiveness.
Attachment can be defined as an
emotional bond between two people in which each seeks closeness and feels more
secure when in the presence of the attachment figure.
By expanding clients»
emotional experience around core attachment needs and structuring change events to shift the cycle of negative interactions, EFT therapists work to help partners create a more
secure bond in their relationship.
Linda's in - depth, integrative approach helps couples access new relationship experiences that can transform
emotional bonds, heal wounds and facilitate
secure connection.
Attachment Parenting is based in the practice of nurturing parenting methods that create strong
emotional bonds, also known as
secure attachment, between children and their parent (s).
More specifically, we expect that: (a) a
secure attachment to parents (represented by high quality of
emotional bond) predicts negatively alienation to peers; (b) insecure attachment to parents (represented by high separation anxiety and high inhibition of exploration and individuality) predicts positively alienation to peers; (c) peer alienation predicts positively problematic Facebook use.
The goals of EFT are to: 1) Re-organize and expand partners» key
emotional responses; 2) Shift partner's interactional positions and start new patterns of interaction; 3) Allow a
secure bond to be created between partners.
Results showed that when adolescents have
secure relationships with their parents (represented by quality of
emotional bond), they are less alienated in their relationships with peers, and, in turn, use Facebook in a less problematic way.
The three distinct factors reflected a
secure - preoccupied attachment to one's nation, which converged on a desire to establish
emotional and dependent links and to merge with one's nation, a fearful attachment that tapped into ruminations about the stability of the attachment
bond between self and nation, and a dismissive attachment which can be interpreted as either a marked desire to separate oneself from one's nation of origin and establish independence and self - sufficiency, or as the lack of an attachment
bond.
Our
emotional bonds and safe
secure attachment effects every aspect of our lives.
Don't fear you are spoiling them, as you are actually making them more
secure and creating a great
emotional bond.
Attachment refers to the
emotional bond infants tend to develop with their primary caregivers, which may have a tendency toward
secure or insecure with both dynamics existing on a continuum (Bowlby, 1969).
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