Sweetness of Connection
I loved this short video that has gone viral in the last few days, so hope you don’t mind it again… The baby is ready to doze off, but seems so delighted by connecting to his mom’s gaze that he just cannot surrender to sleep – “One more moment looking at your eyes mom, one more smile... just to let [...]
Stephen Porges on the vagus nerve
Hi, I am now in Brugge (Bruges), Belgium, enjoying a week off from my busy teaching schedule here in Europe – shopping, gawking at the gorgeous waterways slicing through this fascinating, historical town – but I could not miss reminding you about the upcoming weekly webinar appointment with the NICABM team this Wednesday, May 1st! This time the very special guest [...]
DIANE’S UPLIFTING ANTI-DEPRESSION KITS FOR YOUR “HAPPIEST HOLIDAZE” EVER!
An ERASER so you can make your mistakes or regrets disappear. Heal; repair hurt feelings. A PENNY so you’ll never be broke. Enjoy “abbondanza.” A MARBLE, so no one can correctly say, “You’ve lost all your marbles”. A RUBBERBAND to <<<<stretch>>>> <<<yourself>>>>> beyond your limits…. To discover NEW possibilities! A RIBBON to tie things back together when everything falls [...]
True Wealth – Rich in Relationship
I am so grateful for the global community in so many different countries as well as here at home near Boulder. Thanks to you and all of my friends! You enrich my life in all circumstances, and I deeply believe that true wealth means being rich in high-quality, mutual, empowering relationships. But sometimes things have to go terribly wrong [...]
5 Clinical Ideas to Bring Implicit Encoding to Explicit Integration
One of the great challenges, when working with early Attachment patterns we all accumulate in childhood, is that we are working in the territory of implicit memory which is pre-verbal, non-conceptual, and sub-psychological. How do we excavate this type of memory that is encoded in the body and not in the mind? – because mind was not present this early [...]
DARe to Create Healthy Adult Relationships
Webinar Transcript Edited with Expanded Content Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D. & Maggie Phillips, Ph.D. November 16, 2011 There’s a lot of hopefulness about Attachment Repair – even though there can be a lot of things that go wrong in early attachment. The research that is being done recently strongly indicates that repair toward Secure Attachment is possible – especially if [...]
Primer on Attachment Styles
In the DARE model I developed 8 years ago, I became completely passionate about working to heal in the relational field. I feel that, especially when it comes to healing adult relationships, so much depends on the presence of the therapist, as I’m very aware of the fact that it is virtually impossible to integrate really difficult, disintegrated traumatic experiences [...]
Psychotherapy Networker Conference in Washington, DC
I am excited to let you know that I will be presenting at the upcoming Psychotherapy Networker Conference in Wash, DC this March. The Somatic Experience Trauma Institute (SETI) asked that I do a half day workshop on Somatic Experience and Rich Simon, Editor, was so generous to give us a whole day! I am so excited to be presenting [...]
Video: Kind Eyes – We Are Designed to Connect!
“Beam a Gleam!” A “gleam” or “Gleaming” is the word that describes the special look we send when we greet someone special to us! Imagine showing up at a friend’s house unexpectedly and they open the door and immediately show an authentic delight to see you there. That is a “Gleam Beam”! See the effect it can have by sending [...]