The Golden Square

A new series from The Way Through: Trauma Responsive Care for Intellectual and Developmental Disability Professionals (2021, NADD Press, Kingston NY. P. 73)

“I sometimes talk with my clients about their “inner weather,” a shorthand term for their sensations, feelings, and thoughts. We always work with that as the primary goal, rather than changing or fixing the people in that person's life. You are only in charge of the weather inside of you—you can't change somebody else's weather for them.

How do we learn to do this? Where are we starting from in our own childhoods? I've created the Golden Square of attunement, attachment, attention, and adjustment to illustrate the answers. This image is one way to think about the processes that shape how we react to things, and then notice and work with those processes so we can react to things appropriately and intentionally.”

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