How Your Early Relationships Shape Your Biology

Ever wondered how your attachment style impacts your life?
Join me and my guest, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, as we explore the biology of attachment. Learn how early life experiences shape your nervous system and discover practical strategies for regulating it.
Check out how early relationships shape your emotional landscape, and also have profound effects on your physical and mental health.
This video is an excerpt from my Biology of Trauma® podcast episode titled "Attachment Styles: Impact on Relationships, Health & Healing" which offers insights into overcoming attachment trauma and building resilience.
Click here to listen to the full podcast: bit.ly/3yXobcB
Discover the intricate links between attachment styles developed in infancy and their profound effects on your health and relationships as an adult.
Here’s what you’ll learn in the full podcast episode:
- How early interactions with caregivers shape attachment patterns.
- How attachment styles manifest in adult relationships, including romantic partnerships.
- How attachment styles influence the nervous system and health outcomes.
- The impact of developmental trauma on therapy and healing practices.
- How to change attachment patterns.
- What is one of the fastest ways to regulate?
- The stress and cost of energy to disconnect our natural attachment system.
- Why avoidant attachment patterns struggle more with eating disorders.
- Which attachment pattern is the most complex and hard to measure?
- What makes secure and insecure attachment different?
Click here to listen to the full podcast: bit.ly/3yXobcB
Helpful Links:
Read these three articles I wrote on medium.com to gain a greater understanding of how your attachment style impacts your health and healing from trauma:
- How Your Attachment Style Affects The 3 States Of Your Nervous System bit.ly/3XhMzjk
- Thought It Was Just Your Attachment Style? You May Actually Have Attachment Trauma bit.ly/3XhMzjk
- How Childhood Attachment & Trauma Issues and Recovery Is Actually More Biological, Not Psychological bit.ly/3Vqoq7r
And check out these other Biology of Trauma podcasts:
Podcast #14: How to Not Traumatize Your Infant with Common Parenting Practices with Bette Lamont - Gain a greater understanding of what infants need for the development of a secure attachment. bit.ly/3Vm7sat
Podcast #30: Attachment Adaptations From Age 0 - 6 Months - Learn what happens when we have attachment gaps or injuries in the first six months of life and how it impacts us in the present in ways beyond just our relationships. bit.ly/3VHhIvn
Podcast #34: What does the Polyvagal Lens say about Attachment, Freeze and Functional Diseases? - Learn how our attachment style manifests itself in the context of the three states of the nervous system and how that can impact our susceptibility to disease. bit.ly/3XmpcFa
Podcast #44: How Quickly Can Lifelong Patterns Change? - The lifelong patterns that are the result of our attachment can feel impossible to change. Gain greater hope and understanding of how these lifelong patterns can be rewired in the nervous system. bit.ly/49PBoSU
Podcast #45: Can Adoption or Childhood Trauma Cause Bipolar Disorder? - Adoption can have a huge impact on our attachment. Learn more about how it can affect our health in the context of Bipolar Disorder. bit.ly/3zakikt
Podcast #59: Adoption Trauma: The Myth of Resilience - Learn more about how attachment styles show up in the context of adoption and where to begin to make a shift. bit.ly/45r88zL
Guides:
- Attachment Trauma Roadmap: Earning a secure attachment as an adult requires hard work to rewire the nervous system, in which attachment trauma has become deeply embedded. This roadmap lays out this healing process through somatic work, parts work, and addressing biology. bit.ly/3x8gK1z
- Attachment Pain Guide: Learning how to get to a secure attachment starts with understanding the types of attachment pain you have. This guide helps individuals better understand the types of attachment pain bit.ly/4aKf3VO
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