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What is the link between moving, attachment and belonging?

Did you move when you were young? How many times and what did you notice?

Let's continue to research and foster resilience together!

Exploring the Connection between Attachment, Migration and Belonging What is the link between moving, attachment and belonging? Our research showed that movers report a less secure attachment style. Watch to learn what the eff...

Why do certain clients not want to talk in their native language in therapy?

Some reflections based on my work as multilingual psychotherapist:

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We recently published our study What is the link between moving during one's youth, attachment style and sense of belonging?
After 2+ years (and quite some desk rejections) our article has been published! Together with Brian P. G. and Ruth Van der Hallen we compared the reports of 465 students. Interestingly, both domestic and international movers report a less secure attachment style, compared to non-movers. Sense of belonging did not appear to be different amongst the 4 groups.
The article is openly accessible below (and definitely worth a read ;-).
Also many thanks to Sanne Vollenberg, Chloé Möller & Jamie Maria Paz Laport for helping with the data collection!

Investigating the role of residential migration history on the relationship between attachment and sense of belonging: A SEM approach With the rate of both domestic and international migration steadily increasing, the psychological impact of residential migration remains largely unexplored. Attachment, the emotional bond we establi...

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If you know of other great resources like these, feel free to share or comment.

Stay well and let's get through this together.

Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis for Health Care Providers Webinar Series We know this is a difficult time for everyone, especially those of you who are serving patients. Please join us for an 8-week webinar series featuring mental health and emotional wellness experts showing how health care providers can reduce personal stress during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Better days will come. Lovely poem by creative therapist Gali Salpeter.

Better days will come.
You have experienced hard times before
and you made it through them, remember?

Just know, better days will come.
It is the way that you flow towards them which matters now.

Feel the air as you breathe in. You can't control it all, you know.
It is your own flow that carries meaning now.
So listen to what your waters need,
Strengthen your banks,
And keep your heart open to the rivers nearby.

Flow.
Flow, and you will find that
Better days are somehow here.
For you.
Now.

"Flow" by Gali Salpeter
Image: Card Nr. 6 from "The River" Set © Story and Therapy
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