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5 Attachment: What It Is and Why It Matters So Much

The Place We Find Ourselves

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Attachment Attunement Affect Regulation

Healthy, secure attachment is a function of attunement. And easily, they all begin with a and the word or its two words is affect regulation. We can't talk about attachment without talking about affect regulation. As an infant, you had no ability to regulate your own affect. The infant is utterly dependent on their mother's ability to regulate their affect for them.

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