33 - SP - Connecting With Others: Proximity-Seeking Actions

Throughout our life span, one of the important ways that we connect with people is by using our bodies (e.g., movement, gestures, eye contact, voice) to bring people closer to us and to bring ourselves closer to others.

Our comfort with proximity-seeking can vary widely depending on how responsive our caregivers were in childhood. If we are lucky enough to have a secure attachment style, we might easily reach out for others, trust that others will be appropriately responsive, and be able to handle separations without conflict. If we have a less healthy attachment style (anxious-ambivalent, anxious-avoidant, disorganized-disoriented) we tend to have more difficulty around reaching out, connection, and separation.

But becoming more aware of proximity-seeking actions and making small changes can lead us to develop healthier ways of relating in our current lives.

In this video, Dr. May reviews these concepts and offers some different exercises.

*All videos to the sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP) series can be found in the "Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Skills and Exercises" playlist at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwPrhSDQ0V_t1A4J8pzZxaW3jMVBum2n5.

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Key Reference: Ogden, P. & Fisher, J. (2015) Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393706130

Видео 33 - SP - Connecting With Others: Proximity-Seeking Actions канала Jennifer May, Ph.D.