The Holiday Season may be filled with cheer for some, but for many people the holidays can be a complicated and triggering season. Especially for those who have strained relationships with family, it is important to take care of your emotional needs during the holidays. That may look like setting boundaries, ramping up your self-care, or starting therapy to help you cope. With the holiday season being ripe with triggers and family conflict, you may be wondering what type of support would be right for you?

Attachment style is becoming so well known in part due to authors like Amir Levine and Stan Takin who have made this information palatable and available. The reason it has stayed around in our conversations is because it’s incredibly impactful for our relationships. The way we were loved as children shapes how we love as adults. No matter how much we would like to deny the impact our childhoods have on our adult selves…the truth is our childhood wounding is alive in the present whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.