Healing Attachment Wounds
Liberate your heart
Healing Attachment Wounds
Personal Development and Training Course
We are deeply relational beings. We thrive on respectful and loving human connection.
Closeness with partners, friends, family, or community can also become triggering and painful. The more important the other person is to us, the greater our desire to be met by them; the more insecure or entitled we may feel, both leading to disconnection. A lack of connection, though sometimes experienced as “safe,” presents its own set of disappointments and challenges.
Have you noticed that when you truly long for closeness, you may try to change yourself or the other to get your needs met? Do you minimize your hopes and desires, withdrawing or isolating instead?
In important relationships, do you tend to:
Stay on guard to avoid being dominated or controlled by another’s intentions?
Fear losing connection if you truly follow your own perception and needs?
Worry about being inadequate or wrong, leading you to constantly improve yourself?
Fear feeling unwanted or unloved, so you give too much of yourself?
Push yourself to achieve in order to prove your worth?
Intensify your feelings, as if they define your depth and uniqueness?
Prefer retreating into thought, figuring life out in your head to avoid helplessness?
Seek security and loyalty to compensate for feeling unsupported and unsafe?
Fear missing out or being trapped, compelling you to chase the next thing?
Healing Attachment Wounds offers a way beyond habits that may keep you safe but small, tight, or not truly met.
For Retreat Participants (Five Full Days)
Is it possible to stay present and connected even when we want to withdraw, lash out, or avoid the messiness of relationship altogether? Underneath the masks of shame and compensation, can we allow ourselves to be seen and loved?
Presence with ourselves and others, and healing into secure attachment are learnable skills. Relational resilience guides us away from chaos (being flooded by emotion) or rigidity (defending against feeling) and toward a grounded inner sense of support and connection. When we honor our needs for intimacy as well as autonomy we are able to respond to those close to us with ease, kindness and clarity.
Our nervous system can adapt and hold changing feelings and needs. This gentle, deeply healing and resourcing retreat opens the door to profound self-understanding and new pathways to love.
The Somato-Relational Training (Six Full Days)
Healing Attachment Wounds offers tools for self compassion and relational health, rooted in 35 years of experience in somatic developmental trauma healing. It draws on the principles of PathRetreats, IPNB (Interpersonal Neurobiology), Somatic Experiencing (SE), attachment research, Reich’s personality development stages, essence work and mindfulness.
An evolving understanding of somatic tools will expand your capacity to address clients’ core attachment wounds. You will lean into facilitating hypo-and hyper-aroused attachment system regulation, widening the window of tolerance so that fluctuating needs can be integrated in customized ways.
Meeting our client’s attachment wounds with skill and respect is possible when we, as therapists and coaches, are able to regulate and integrate in times of relational distress. Through the training process, you may uncover deeper healing within yourself as well as find the appropriate stance to guide individuals as they create coherent relational fields that support their lives and interpersonal needs.
Please reach out for a discovery call if you’d like to participate as a trainee.
Gita and Team
November 11 - 16
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Retreat: November 11, 2:30pm - November 16, 12:30pm
$1150
Training: November 11, 9am - November 16, 5:30pm
$1380
For more information: ixchel@pathretreats.com
For booking: https://pathretreats.com/retreat/healing-attachment-wounds#
We are mysteriously called to love no matter the condition of our lives… The persistence of this call gives us reason to hope. Bell Hooks