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Healing Your Attachment Style: A Catholic Approach to Building Lasting Relationships (Secure in Him) - Softcover
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Caught between longing for love and fearing the pain that can come with it?
Maybe you fear abandonment even when nothing seems wrong. Maybe you keep people at a distance, then wonder why you feel so alone. Or perhaps a breakup has left you caught between hoping someone will return and fearing that the same painful patterns will begin again.
Behind these struggles may be something deeper: an unhealed attachment wound.
Healing Your Attachment Style offers a Catholic path to understanding the hidden patterns that shape the way you love. Drawing together modern attachment science and Catholic spirituality, Edward P. Martin explores how your earliest relationships can form a subconscious relational map that continues to influence how you connect with partners, family, friends, and even God.
But your past does not have to determine the way you love today.
Inside, you will discover how to:
Identify your attachment style and recognize the patterns influencing your relationships
Understand why you cling, withdraw, overthink, or self-protect when intimacy feels uncertain
See other people's relational patterns more clearly without automatically taking their behavior personally
Bring emotional wounds into Catholic spiritual practice and the sacramental life of the Church
Build more secure and peaceful relationships while rooting your identity in God's faithful love
What distinguishes this approach is its conviction that attachment is not merely psychological. The human longing to feel safe, seen, soothed, and secure also points toward a deeper spiritual reality. God the Father can become the ultimate Haven of Safety and Secure Base from which you learn to love without being ruled by fear.
Your longing for secure connection is not something to silence. It can become an invitation to understand your wounds, encounter God's steadfast love more deeply, and begin relating to others from greater freedom and peace.
Your past may explain your patterns. It does not have to write your future.
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