Learning Resources 

Attached guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mate) follow, offering a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections with the people they love.

This informative guide helps you identify and heal from childhood emotional neglect so you can be more connected and emotionally present in your life.

• Move past old patterns from your childhood to become the parent or caregiver you yearn to be—no matter what you went through growing up

• Resolve past attachment traumas so you can offer a calm, connected, and secure base

• Create a secure attachment relationship with your kids by choosing connection over control

• Build and reinforce a strong foundation of trust with scripts and practical tools

• Understand that it’s never too late to create a stronger bond with your children

• Reducing stress and worry 
• Handling painful thoughts and feelings more effectively 
• Breaking self-defeating habits 
• Overcoming insecurity and self-doubt 
• Building better relationships 
• Improving performance and finding fulfilment at work 

Drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, Wired for Love presents research on how and why love lasts, and offers ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship. It includes guidance on how to manage disagreements, as well as exercises to help you create a sense of safety and security, establish healthy conflict ground rules, and deal with the threat of the third—any outside source which threatens the harmony in your relationship, including in-laws, alcohol, children, and affairs.

Everybody wants someone to love and spend time with, and searching for your ideal partner is a natural and healthy human tendency. Just about everyone dates at some point in their lives, yet few really understand what they're doing or how to get the best results. In Wired for Dating, psychologist Stan Tatkin, offers powerful tips based in neuroscience and attachment theory to help you find a compatible mate and go on to create a fabulous relationship.
 

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health.  Filled with skills for your toolkit, this will teach you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Her advice and coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. .

Clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.

4 types of parenting: The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory

• When it’s hard to be with yourself: facing vulnerability alone, dealing with your inner critic, and handling imposter syndrome.

• When it’s hard to be with other people: dealing with betrayal and knowing what to do when you (or your parents) got it wrong.

• When it’s hard to be with your feelings: coping with loneliness, fear, and hopelessness

• When you’re healing from the past: getting out of a trauma response and learning how to stop ruminating about old events.

• When you’re looking to the future: preventing making the same mistakes, tackling uncertainty, and finding your path.

Open When teaches each of us to find and listen to the positive voice within when we need it most, and to care for our future selves and our mental health.