Ep. 05 / Attachment Styles Through the Generations & How to Move Towards Repair, Part One

This two-part series with guest Patti Elledge, MA, SEP gives an overview of Attachment styles and how our early individual, familial and societal influences shape how we relate, bond, and parent into adulthood.

Patti is one of my personal teachers, and someone who played a pivotal role in my own healing journey. She has specialized in therapeutic application of neuroscience for more than 40 years, and has a broad clinical background in developmental traumas. She worked directly with babies, children and families for more than 25 years, specializing in interpersonal, social/emotional, language/cognition and sensory processing disorders, as well as early attachment disruptions. Her blending of a variety of somatic and body-mind techniques helps to treat and resolve fight-flight-freeze nervous system responses that become coupled with how we love, bond, and our sense of "belonging.”

By accessing these parts of our nervous system and moving out of stuck, frozen or fear-based patterns we can return to healthy self- and co-regulatory functioning. This return to regulation leads us to a greater sense of self, connection to others and our own creative and spiritual natures.

Part one defines many related terms, with a neuroscience approach to de-mystify what creates a felt sense of security between parent and baby/child, and what we may do now to move towards repair if we were not modeled that enough as children.