Attachment Repair

Attachment Repair is a guided meditation and psycho-education project that helps people improve their emotional health and self-understanding. It focuses on healing the effects of early trauma and poor care, which can leave lasting negative views of ourselves and others, especially in close relationships. The work is offered through online courses, educational articles and downloadable guided meditations.

Its primary influences are Buddhist meditation practices such as Vipassana and Metta (loving kindness), and modern psychology: Attachment Theory, Coherence Therapy, Schema Therapy and the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol. Out of these, the project developed what it calls the Attachment Repair Meditation Modality. Its practices include guided meditations that introduce the Perfect Nurturers, imaginal parents who give a felt experience of secure attachment. The project describes itself as a meditation program, not a substitute for therapy.

The courses are taught by meditation teacher Cedric Reeves. He began weekly psychotherapy at 17 and, after studying psychology from 2005, found meditation to be the central focus of his life. He kept a daily practice, largely in the Buddhist tradition, including Zen, Advaita Vedanta self-inquiry, Vipassana, Tibetan Deity Yoga and heart practices such as Loving Kindness and Tong Len. He became a full-time meditation teacher.

In early 2020 a friend introduced him to attachment theory, and he recognized his own insecure attachment. He went on to train in the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol, Schema Therapy, Coherence Therapy and the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment. The site says he studied under Dan P. Brown and George Haas and is a certified grader of the Adult Attachment Interview.

Today he guides people through these meditations in online group courses and in one-on-one coaching. He also shares guided meditations, lectures and Q&A on YouTube.