How to Rebuild Attachment With a Child Being Coerced
In this video, Dr. Christine Cocchiola discusses one of the most important tasks for protective parents:
Fortifying attachment.
When children are being coercively controlled by an abusive parent, attachment is often intentionally fractured over time.
This is not accidental.
It is strategic.
✨ In this episode, Dr. Christine explores:
• What “malicious fracturing of attachment” looks like
• Why abusive parents lure children with excessive freedom
• How coercive control changes children over time
• Why your child may seem completely different now
• Increased boundary pushing, dysregulation, or behavioral changes
• Why connection must come before correction
• How positive memories help rebuild safety and attachment
• The grief protective parents experience in these dynamics
• Why traditional parenting approaches may not work here
• How to “level up” parenting through the lens of coercive control
This is not the parenting journey you imagined.
And there is real grief in that.
But your relationship with your child still matters deeply.
🩵 Attachment is protective.
🩵 Connection creates safety.
🩵 And safety is what helps children heal.
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