Supportive Relationships Takeaway: Healthy relationships improve quality of life. Our systems find regulation and also learn how to regulate through coregulation. Lean on trusted others in hard moments.

Practice (2:21): Safe Person Meditation

Journal & Thought Prompts: What was your experience of being “attended to” as a child? What are ways that you have been using coregulation in your life? What stops your from reaching out for support? Take an inventory of your social support system, where are you needing more connections, where are you feeling content?

“We weren’t built to be handling hard things on our own.”

Additional Readings

Platonic: How the Science of Attachment can help you Make and Keep Friends, Marisa Franco, PhD