Psychiatrist Curt Thompson highlighted the importance of parents making coherent sense of their stories. In his book Anatomy of the Soul, he wrote, “People who have made coherent sense of their own stories enable their children to attach [to them] securely…. In fact, of all the variables that influence the formation of a child’s attachment pattern, the single most robust factor is whether or not the parent has made sense of his or her own life.”[11]
