New! LIVE Masterclass with Q&A
Wired for Connection
The Attachment Roots of Addiction
- Tuesday, July 21, 2026 @ 11 am MT | 1 pm ET
Explore how early attachment experiences can shape addictive and compulsive behaviors—and how healing begins by restoring connection with ourselves, with others, and with something larger.
What If the Behavior Isn’t the Real Problem?
You promise yourself this time will be different.
You will stop drinking after one glass. Put the phone down. Go to bed on time. Stop checking their messages. Spend less. Work less. Stop reaching for the thing you already know is making life harder.
Yet despite insight, determination, and sincere efforts to change, the pattern returns.
It is easy to interpret this as a failure of discipline or willpower.
But what if the behavior is trying to meet a deeper need?
Addictive and compulsive patterns often develop as attempts to create relief, regulation, belonging, safety, or connection. A substance may quiet an overwhelmed nervous system. A relationship may temporarily soothe a fear of abandonment. Overwork, perfectionism, food, shopping, or endless scrolling may help us avoid feelings that once seemed too difficult to face alone.
These strategies may have begun as intelligent forms of adaptation.
But over time, the same strategies that once offered protection can create painful consequences, disconnection, and shame.
You promise yourself this time will be different.
Healing begins when we stop asking only:
“Why can’t I stop?”
And begin asking:
“What have I been trying to soothe, protect, or find through this behavior?”
Discover a more compassionate path toward healing—for yourself, someone you love, or those you support
In This FREE, 90-Minute Live Masterclass, You’ll Learn...
In this live training, Dr. Grand shares his revolutionary approach to working trauma held in the body…
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How early attachment wounds can shape addictive patterns
Explore the hidden relationship between early attachment experiences, developmental trauma, loneliness, and the coping strategies we may reach for when we feel overwhelmed, disconnected, abandoned, or unsafe.
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Why addictive behaviors are often attempts to create safety or relief
Learn why addictive and compulsive patterns are not always failures of discipline, but may begin as adaptive attempts to create regulation, belonging, comfort, or protection.
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How addiction can show up beyond substances
Understand how compulsive patterns can extend into codependency, relationships, food, work, spending, sex, perfectionism, technology, and other persistent ways of coping.
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How reconnection supports meaningful change
Discover how shame can strengthen the cycle, why curiosity and self-compassion matter, and how reconnection with yourself, others, and something larger can support recovery.
You’ll also begin identifying what kind of support may be most appropriate for you, someone you love, or the people you serve.
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Wired for Connection
The Attachment Roots of Addiction
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 @ 11 am MT | 1 pm ET
Learn LIVE with Rose Viggiano
A Compassionate Framework for Understanding Attachment, Addiction, and Reconnection
A live masterclass exploring the attachment roots of addiction and a pathway back to safety, connection, and belonging.
In this all-new live masterclass hosted by Dr. Diane Poole Heller, Rose Viggiano explores how attachment wounds and early relational disconnection can shape the nervous system’s vulnerability to addictive, compulsive, and codependent behaviors.
Drawing from attachment theory, addiction research, trauma healing, nervous system science, and nearly 25 years of lived recovery experience, Rose will offer a framework that is both clinically informed and deeply human.
Attachment & Early Relational Disconnection
Understand how early experiences of disconnection can shape our need for control, soothe pain, and find belonging.
Nervous System Patterns & Protection
Explore how the nervous system learns to protect us and how those protective patterns can become barriers to connection.
A Roadmap Toward Reconnection
Learn a practical, compassionate framework for moving beyond shame and isolation toward safety, trust, and meaningful connection.
Who Should Join Us?
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Individuals exploring addictive or compulsive patterns:
You may be questioning your relationship with alcohol, drugs, food, work, spending, sex, relationships, perfectionism, technology, or another behavior that feels difficult to change. You do not need to identify as an “addict” to benefit. This masterclass offers a way to look beneath the behavior and begin understanding the pain, needs, and attachment patterns that may be sustaining it. -
Loved ones of someone struggling with addiction:
You may feel confused, responsible, exhausted, or caught in a cycle of rescuing, monitoring, controlling, or trying to convince someone else to change. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of why addictive patterns persist, how codependency can run on a similar attachment system, and why your own healing and boundaries matter. -
Trauma clinicians and mental health professionals:
You work with clients who repeatedly return to addictive, compulsive, or self-defeating behaviors despite insight and therapeutic progress. You’ll gain an integrated perspective connecting attachment, developmental trauma, nervous system regulation, shame, relationships, and addiction. -
Coaches, healers, clergy, and helping professionals:
You support people navigating recurring patterns, relationship struggles, emotional dysregulation, or recovery—and want a more compassionate framework for understanding what may be happening beneath the behavior.
Meet Your Instructors
Rose Viggiano
Relationship Coach, Attachment Specialist, Creator of The Awakening Relationships Method
The opposite of addiction is not simply sobriety. It is connection.
Rose Viggiano is a Master Relationship Coach, attachment specialist, and creator of The Awakening Relationships Method, helping individuals and couples heal old wounds, understand the patterns that keep connection feeling difficult, and build relationships that feel secure.
Drawing on nearly 25 years of personal recovery and more than a decade of client work, she helps people understand the attachment patterns that shape their relationships, addictions, and sense of connection.
Rose is a Certified Master Level Relationship Coach, Relational Life Therapy Couples Coach, DARe Practitioner and assistant, and has training in IFS, Compassionate Inquiry, and Somatic Experiencing. Her work combines lived experience, attachment science, and practical tools to help people build secure, connected relationships.
Diane Poole Heller PhD
International Speaker, Author, and Teaching Expert in Adult Attachment Theory and Trauma Resolution
When our nervous system recognizes security on a deep, embodied level, our capacity for love, trust, and connection expands exponentially.
Diane Poole Heller PhD is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Learn LIVE with Rose Viggiano
Includes Teaching and Q&A!