​Healthy emotional attachment (which occurs within the first 9 months of life) deeply shapes our connection with ourselves, our ability to develop a sense of inner emotional control and our ability to care for and trust others as well. These capacities are all dependent upon healthy right-sided brain development in infants and appropriate right-sided responses from our parents/caregivers.

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When we fail to attach during infancy, the right side of our brain is less developed. When we don’t attach to others we will struggle with poor emotional control, a sense of worthlessness, difficulty noticing/reading other people’s emotions and difficulty feeling empathy for others. As development continues we may also struggle to establish healthy relationships in adulthood, and struggle to connect with and trust God. Come and learn about brain development, and about how attachment shapes behavioral and emotional development across our life span. There is reason to hope that new choices and new experiences can assist us in forming new attachments even if attachment in infancy was disrupted.​