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Protect Your Relationship, Save Your Marriage Emotional Connection is a story of a real couple in trouble. It's their therapeutic journey toward healing. And it's the science that makes sense of it all. All couples want their relationship to succeed. There is no shortage of relationship advice about better couples communication, protecting your marriage from affairs, resolving conflict or saving your marriage from divorce. The truth is, without a sustained focus on building intimate connection and secure emotional bonds, a marriage will eventually become dissatisfying. The initial love attraction and the commitment to vows are often not enough to protect relationships from disconnection, affairs and divorce. Childhood trauma, adolescent attachment injuries, and early marriage priorities all plot the course for our adult love relationship security and the success of those relationships. The feelings and excitement of new love begin to fade after a year or two. What once felt like a magical connection begins to look like the relationship you said you would never have. You commit to reconnect when the nest is empty. It never happens. You've become strangers. It's only in recent years that the theory and science of secure loving attachment has been taught to couples therapists. Now thousands of well-researched articles discuss how bonds of love are created and nurtured. Author Dr. Michael Regier, a seasoned therapist certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), takes these lifesaving truths and insights about secure attachment and lasting love and lays them out in a way that you can apply to your relationship. How is Emotional Connection different? Its unique combination of story, science and couples therapy is easy to relate to and understand, while being grounded in science. It's rich with examples of how you can prepare for, protect or save your marriage. Story: Step into the lives of a couple, perhaps like you or others you know. You will feel their pain and fear. Experience their hope and joy. Learn from their journey how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to relationship conflict. Readers will engage in the seemingly perfect lives of Ben and Claire. When disconnection opens the door to trouble, ripping at the foundations of marriage, they find professional help, learn the principles of attachment and the keys to deep connection. You, the reader, will learn alongside them, how to prevent conflict and protect your relationship. Therapy: Ever wonder what couples therapy or marriage counseling is like? Readers get a bird's-eye view of it, through Ben and Claire's weekly therapy sessions. You will be exposed to their emotional battle zone and witness their feelings of fear and incompetence when their relationship seems impossible to repair. Tools to strengthen and repair your relationship will be revealed behind closed-door therapy sessions. Analysis and Science: The principles in this book are supported by research. Readers will learn the big picture of what contributes to relationship's success or failure. Author and therapist Dr. Regier shares the scientifically proven methods that are used day-in and day-out to help couples see the real enemy lurking within relationships. Who is Emotional Connection for? If you are single, in a new relationship, or engaged to be married, or if your relationship is already in danger, there is much in these pages of immense value as you embark on your lives together.

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I have yet to see a book explain the power of attachment in a way that draws the reader into the story of another. I couldn't put it down. Few books take a reader into an experience where they can relate to and remember the information. This book accomplishes that. Joshua Straub, Ph.D., Author, Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well In their unique and captivating approach the authors invite you to be a fly on the wall of marital therapy sessions and what happens in the couple's relationship between sessions. Rich with clinical and research insights this practical guide will show you how even a well-intentioned marriage can drift, get stuck, and then repair. Ron L. Deal, LMFT, LPC, bestselling author of The Smart Stepfamily and President, SmartStepfamilies.com This special and unique combination of fiction and science offers a much-needed message about love and bonding. Written for the general public but also very informative to all couple therapists, the poignant love story of Ben and Claire will illuminate romantic connection for all that are lucky enough to read Emotional Connection. Paul A. Aikin, Ph.D. Dr. Regier's wealth of experience in using attachment theory to counsel couples is presented in the most accessible and clear way. The book has a very engaging style in which we follow the story of a couple, we sit in on their counseling sessions and lastly we benefit from the analysis given by Dr. Regier. Our emotional connections with others do not have to be an illogical and unpredictable abyss to be avoided... they can be the source of much joy and a foundation for a much deeper and lasting relationship. Andre Rabe, International speaker and founder of Mimesis Academy

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Authors Dr. Michael and Paula Regier are married and work together in the Center for Relational Excellence in Visalia, California. Michael earned his Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology and has over thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist. He is a certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist. He is a former faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Kaweah Delta Psychiatric residency program in Visalia, California. Paula has a background in business and accounting and is Practice Administrator of the Center for Relational Excellence. She has developed a second career as a neurofeedback technician where she helps emotionally over- and under-aroused individuals overcome trauma, find focus and achieve emotional balance. Michael and Paula are passionate about helping couples prevent relationship failure through attachment based treatment and education.

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