The Polysecure Workbook Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships

by Fern, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9781990869044
• ISBN10: 1990869041
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781990869051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-25
• Publisher: Thornapple Press

Summary

The Polysecure Workbook encourages examination of any attachment challenges you may have experienced in your opening up process and offers insights into how to build secure relationships. Through practical exercises, you will explore your own attachment history, examine your reasons for practicing nonmonogamy and the different styles of nonmonogamy that you relate to, and consider whether you rely on relationship structure for your attachment security. The Polysecure Workbook provides the tools needed to navigate the complexities of multiple loving relationships and to build personal security.

Author Biography

Jessica Fern is a psychotherapist, public speaker and trauma and relationship expert and the author of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy. In her international private practice, Jessica works with individuals, couples and people in multiple-partner relationships who no longer want to be limited by their reactive patterns, cultural conditioning, insecure attachment styles and past traumas, helping them to embody new possibilities in life and love.

Table of Contents

In Part One you will focus on your own attachment history with your childhood attachment figures, your resulting attachment styles as an adult, your different attachment experiences on the multiple dimensions of Nested Model of Attachment and Trauma, and how to bring more acceptance and release of your past. In Part Two you will explore your why for practicing nonmonogamy, the different styles of nonmonogamy that you relate to, your experiences of relying on relationship structure for your attachment security and the specific ways that you may have experienced attachment challenges, changes and ruptures throughout your opening up process. Part Three attends to the safe haven and secure base foundations of being polysecure, how to apply HEARTS in your relationship with partners and yourself and then ends with walking you through some contemplations and ideas for assessing your level of polysaturation and how to create your own vessel when there are attachment struggles at play.