Adoption: Understanding attachment trauma and paths toward healing, with Dr. Lark Eshleman
Description
Have you ever met someone and immediately felt safe? Like this person is trustworthy, warm, would see you through the hardest of things? Meet Dr. Eshleman - Lark, as she prefers to be called. She embodies the work she does by modeling safe relationships, bringing her deep knowledge and experience of attachment and trauma, and by demonstrating her life long passion for helping children heal from ruptured connections early in their life.
I don't know about you, but relationships and healthy attachments feel so foundational to all other wellness in our lives and also the most complicated to understand and repair when things have been severed. Lark brings so much understanding, grace, warmth and clarity around both the hardest of the experiences and the steps towards healing.
If you are parenting a child who has experienced ruptures in their early attachments, Lark wants you to know what you can be actively doing to facilitate healing in your families. So please tune in for this episode, you won't be disappointed.
If you want to read Dr. Lark Eshleman's book, you can find it here: Becoming a Family
To learn more about Dr. Lark's work and the resources she mentioned in our episode, check out these links:
https://www.facebook.com/AttachmentandTrauma/
Lark’s colouring book: https://forallseasonsinc.org/product/color-me-closer/
Other resources mentioned in the recording:
https://www.amazon.ca/Neurofeedback-Treatment-Developmental-Trauma-Fear-driven/dp/0393707865
Dr. Lark talks in this episode about the healing qualities of Coregulation. To learn more about how to do this effectively with your children, check out 10 Strategies for Coregulation.
And if you are a couple waiting to adopt, I'd encourage you to check out this self-paced online course: Adoption: What to do while you wait, available for the month of February at 50% off when you enter coupon code ADOPTSTRONG
With you in the trenches,
Karen
United States
