Michael Regier – Emotional Connection Relationship Foundations

The Story & Science of Preventing Conflict & Creating Lifetime Love

Why relationships fail and how to protect and deepen yours!

Get it right from the start . . . or reboot now to prevent pain and conflict later!

Relationship Foundations will teach you:

• ~ why you struggle today
• ~what went wrong in previous relationships
• ~ how to create relationship safety
• ~ how to avoid conflict and arguments
• ~ how to repair relationship damage
• ~ how to communicate effectively
• ~ how to build trust
• ~ how to be great lovers
• . . . and more

Here’s what you get:

6 Modules – 16 Lessons

videos, exercises, conversation starters,

experiencing connection activities, discussion forums

MODULE 1 – BROKEN PROMISES: BLINDSIDED BY BETRAYAL

• Lesson 1: The Heartbreak of Betrayal: How Couples in Love Become Victims of Betrayal
• Lesson 2: Anatomy of Marriage: How Emotional Connection and Disconnection Makes and Breaks Lifetime Love Relationships
• Lesson 3: Anticipating Therapy: Unpacking the Nightmare and Terror of Possible Relationship Destruction

MODULE 2 – TRAUMA: FACE-TO-FACE WITH OUR ENEMIES

• Lesson 4: Defending With Denial: Overcoming Fear and Facing the Truth of How Couples Get Disconnected
• Lesson 5: Trauma, Attachment, and the Cycle: How Trauma, Insecure Attachment, and the Negative Cycle Create the Perfect Storm for Relationship Disaster (Read More)

MODULE 3 – EARLY CHILDHOOD: HOW PARENTS SHAPE CHILDHOOD ATTACHMENT

• Lesson 6: The Birth of Connection: How Childhood Experiences Create Insecure Emotional Attachment
• Lesson 7: Taking the Heat: Understanding How Couples Learn to De-Escalate Traumatic Negative Cycle Arguments
• Lesson 8: The Science of First Bonds: How Infant Emotional Communication Forms Emotional Attachment Styles that Affect Adult Love Relationships

MODULE 4 – NEW LOVE: ATTRACTION’S FANTASY & THE CHEMISTRY OF NEW LOVE

• Lesson 9: The Feeling of Paradise: Understanding Our Power and Vulnerability to New Love Emotions
• Lesson 10: Uncovering Aloneness and Addiction: How Couples Trade Connection for Career and Cover the Aloneness with Addictions and Affairs
• Lesson 11: Attached or Addicted to New Love: Understanding the Biological Differences Between New Love and Lifelong Attachment

MODULE 5 – ADULT ATTACHMENT: LOVE LEFT BEHIND & THE VITAL SCIENCE OF ADULT ATTACHMENT

• Lesson 12: The Spiral of Disconnection: Making Sense of the Common Story of New Love Betrayal’s Threat to Attachment
• Lesson 13: From Withdrawal to Engagement:How Expressive Emotional Connection is the Key to Repairing and Building Secure Attachment Bonds
• Lesson 14: The Big Picture of Adult Attachment: Why Protecting and Growing Attachment Must Be Our First Priority

MODULE 6 – COMMITTED TO CONNECTION: EMPTY & ALONE: HOPE THROUGH HEALING

• Lesson 15: Courage to Connect & Risking, Reaching & Bonding: Letting Go of False Comfort and Expressing our Vulnerable Need to Emotionally Connect
• Lesson 16: Rescued by Connection: Putting it all Together

About Michael Regier

Dr. Michael W. Regier is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, Supervisor and Director of the Center for Relational Excellence in San Luis Obispo and Visalia, California. He has taught Emotionally Focused Therapy to Psychiatric Residents at the U.C. Irvine affiliate in Visalia, CA and currently teaches therapists in the Central California region.

He is a former faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. For the last 12 years he and his wife Paula have been developing resources to help couples learn how to prevent conflict and build lifetime loving relationships. Michael and Paula are co-authors of the companion book for this course, Emotional Connection: The Story & Science of Preventing Conflict & Creating Lifetime Love.

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