Book Nook - The New Rules of Attachment: How to Heal Your Relationships, Reparent Your Inner Child, and Secure Your Life Vision

Attachment style forms the foundation for how we understand trust, security, and build our self-concept and self-esteem, which then affects how we achieve goals, approach physical and mental wellness, and how we relate to friends, family, colleagues and romantic partners. 

Triple board-certified clinical and forensic neuropsychologist Judy Ho, PhD, ABPP, ABPdN, CFMHE in The New Rules of Attachment: How to Heal Your Relationships, Reparent Your Inner Child, and Secure Your Life Vision (Hachette Book Group / Balance; March 26, 2024) reveals how insecure attachment style—which affects up to 75% of the population—impacts our lives more than we realize, and how we can heal the wounds that prevent us from living our best lives at any age.

Dr. Judy delivers pragmatic solutions to this fundamental human problem and offers practical takeaways which include:

·      Science-backed tips for strengthening self-concept, goal achievement, enhancing motivation, and building resilience in the face of challenges 

·      Learning the specific barriers that are holding you back and healing patterns of workaholism, codependency, people-pleasing, poor boundaries, and unhealthy escapist coping

·      Exercises that help with visioning life goals, achieving psychological flow, and accessing deeper meaningfulness and joy in everyday life

·      Practical strategies for reducing burnout at work and career, fine-tuning communication styles for creative collaboration, and improving personal and professional relationships 

·      Creating your own personalized toolkit for coping with chronic and acute stress and traumas to attain your best mental and physical functioning

 

The New Rules of Attachment is grounded in the science of attachment and offers a revolutionary approach that teaches readers how to change their anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment style in relationships, friendships, work, goal-setting, and most of all, our sense of self.

We can all learn to become securely attached—no matter what attachment style we developed in childhood—and reclaim our ability to feel safe, loved, and capable of achieving the life we’ve always wanted.
 
Through Dr. Judy’s innovative program, readers will learn to identify their attachment style, recognize their core needs and wounds, and implement evidence-based practical tools to heal emotional wounds and traumas as they develop the secure attachment we all need to thrive.
 
Readers will also benefit from: 

·      A new attachment style quiz to identify your attachment style in all areas of life

·      A personalized approach that allows you to start making positive change today

·      More than two dozen transformative exercises to support your journey to healing

·      Attachment style triggers, timely tips, self-compassion strategies and self-concept boosters

 

Dr. Judy also discusses:

·      How attachment affects your goal attainment, friendships and collegial relationships, emotional and physical health, and what you can do about it

·      Tips for how different attachment styles can best relate to and interact with other styles

·      A program for inner child work and how to reparent yourself for secure attachment at any age

·      Parenting tips for helping your child develop secure attachment 

·      How to overcome codependency, workaholism, and emotional dysregulation - and how these patterns relate to attachment

 

Dr. Judy takes readers through her action-packed exercises and demonstrates how to implement these techniques at home and at work.

With warmth, authority, and a call to action, The New Rules of Attachment invokes unconditional self-love and a meaningful, joyful life.

Dr. Judy Ho, Ph. D., ABPP, ABPdN is a triple board certified and licensed Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychologist, a tenured Associate Professor at Pepperdine University, and author of Stop Self-Sabotage. An avid researcher and a two-time recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Services Research Award, Dr. Judy maintains a private practice where she specializes in comprehensive neuropsychological assessments and expert witness work. She is often called on by the media as an expert psychologist and is also a sought-after public speaker for universities, businesses, and organizations. Dr. Judy received her bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Business Administration from UC Berkeley, and her master’s and doctorate from SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She completed a National Institute of Mental Health sponsored fellowship at UCLA's Semel Institute.