Wired for Connection – Free Training with Rose Viggiano & Diane Poole Heller

Addiction is often spoken about as a problem of willpower, discipline, or bad choices. But many compulsive patterns begin as attempts to find relief, restore balance, or feel less alone in moments that are simply too much to carry.

When early relationships leave us feeling unseen, unsafe, or disconnected, the nervous system adapts. We reach for whatever helps us get through, and over time those strategies can harden into patterns that are painful, confusing, and difficult to interrupt.

This free live training offers a more compassionate way to understand what may be happening beneath the surface. Rather than asking only why a behavior keeps returning, you’ll be invited to look at the deeper needs for safety, regulation, belonging, and connection that may be driving it.

With warmth, clarity, and grounded insight, Rose Viggiano and Dr. Diane Poole Heller will explore how attachment wounds can shape addictive and compulsive behaviors, and how healing can begin through reconnection with ourselves, with others, and with something larger.

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Why Attend “Wired for Connection”

Many people know what it feels like to return to a behavior they do not actually want, and then judge themselves for not changing faster. This training offers a different frame, so instead of reducing addiction to weakness or failure, you’ll begin to see how certain behaviors may have developed as attempts to create relief, safety, regulation, or belonging.

Rose Viggiano brings lived recovery experience together with attachment work, trauma awareness, and somatic understanding, so the conversation stays both compassionate and practical. Hosted by Dr. Diane Poole Heller, this session helps connect early relational wounds with adult coping patterns, which means you can look beneath the surface of compulsion with more honesty and less shame.

When you understand what a pattern has been trying to provide, change can begin from a steadier place. That shift matters, because healing is not only about stopping a behavior, but also about restoring connection with yourself, with other people, and with the deeper support your system has been needing all along.

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What You’ll Learn About Healing Addiction

In this session, you’ll begin with a gentler understanding of addiction, so you can move beyond blame and look at the real needs underneath compulsive behavior. Rose will help you explore attachment patterns in a grounded way, which means you can start connecting your current coping strategies with earlier experiences of disconnection, stress, or unmet need.

You’ll also look at how the nervous system learns to protect you, and then repeats familiar strategies when life feels overwhelming, lonely, or unsafe. That matters because many behaviors that seem irrational on the surface may once have served a regulating function, so understanding them differently can open more space for compassion and change.

We’ll stay practical throughout, and then bring the conversation back to reconnection, which is where meaningful healing often starts. By the end, you’ll have a clearer language for what addiction may be trying to manage, and you’ll be better able to recognize the role of shame, attachment, trauma, and belonging in patterns that keep repeating.

Here’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:

• How early attachment wounds can shape vulnerability to addictive patterns
• Why compulsive behaviors may function as substitutes for safety or relief
• How loneliness, trauma, and disconnection can fuel recurring cycles
• Why shame and self-judgment often keep patterns in place
• How the nervous system learns protective strategies under stress
• Why addiction can show up beyond alcohol and drugs
• How codependency and relationship patterns can be part of the same picture
• What more compassionate questions can reveal about a behavior
• Why reconnection is often central to meaningful recovery
• How this framework can help you, someone you love, or people you support

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Who This Is For

This training is for people who want a more humane and useful way to understand addiction and compulsive behavior. You may be looking at your own patterns, supporting someone you love, or trying to make sense of why certain cycles continue even when there is sincere effort to change.

It is also a strong fit for therapists, coaches, clergy, and helping professionals who work with people caught in recurring struggles. The material is practical and accessible, so whether you are personally affected or professionally involved, you’ll come away with language and insight that can deepen both compassion and clarity.

• Individuals exploring addictive or compulsive patterns in their own lives
• Loved ones seeking a deeper understanding of addiction and codependency
• Trauma clinicians and mental health professionals
• Coaches, healers, clergy, and helping professionals
• Anyone curious about the connection between attachment and recovery

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About Rose Viggiano

Rose Viggiano is a Master Relationship Coach, attachment specialist, and creator of The Awakening Relationships Method. Her work helps individuals and couples understand the patterns that keep connection feeling difficult, and then build relationships that feel more secure, honest, and sustainable.

Drawing on nearly 25 years of personal recovery and more than a decade of client work, Rose brings both professional depth and lived experience to the conversation. She is known for offering a clinically informed framework that still feels deeply human, so people can explore addiction, attachment, and healing without getting lost in abstraction.

Her background includes training as a Certified Master Level Relationship Coach, Relational Life Therapy Couples Coach, DARe Practitioner and assistant, with additional training in IFS, Compassionate Inquiry, and Somatic Experiencing. That blend allows her to connect attachment science, trauma healing, and relationship work in a way that is clear, grounded, and practical.

This event is hosted by Dr. Diane Poole Heller, an internationally recognized teacher in adult attachment theory and trauma resolution. Together, they bring a thoughtful and compassionate lens to the ways people search for regulation, relief, and connection when life has felt too hard to navigate alone.

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FAQ

When and where does the event take place?

This free online event takes place on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 10am Pacific Time (PT). After you register, you’ll receive the access details to join live, and all registrants will also receive a limited-time replay.

Who is Rose Viggiano?

Rose Viggiano is a relationship coach, attachment specialist, and creator of The Awakening Relationships Method. She brings nearly 25 years of lived recovery experience along with training in attachment, trauma healing, somatic work, and Compassionate Inquiry.

What will I learn during this event?

You’ll explore how early attachment wounds can shape addictive and compulsive patterns, why certain behaviors can become substitutes for relief or belonging, how shame reinforces the cycle, and why reconnection can be central to healing.

What if I can’t attend live?

You can still register. Everyone who signs up will receive access to a free, limited-time replay after the event.

How long is the event?

The training is approximately 90 minutes long.

Do I need any special equipment to participate?

No special equipment is required. You’ll just need an internet connection and a device you can use to watch the live training.

Who is hosting the event?

This event is hosted by Dr. Diane Poole Heller and features teaching from Rose Viggiano.

Is this event suitable for beginners?

Yes. The session is designed to be accessible whether this is your first exposure to attachment work or you already have experience with trauma healing and recovery conversations.

Is this event religious?

No. The training is not religious and welcomes people from a wide range of backgrounds and beliefs.

Will there be an opportunity to go deeper after the event?

Yes. During the session, you’ll hear about ways to continue learning if you’d like to explore the material more deeply after the training.

What can I expect to feel during the event?

Many people find that this kind of conversation brings both relief and insight. You may leave with a deeper sense of compassion, more clarity about persistent patterns, and a steadier understanding of what healing can involve.

Can I share this event with friends?

Yes. You are welcome to share it with friends, loved ones, or colleagues who may benefit from a more compassionate understanding of addiction and attachment.

Is this event really free?

Yes. There is no cost to attend this live online training.

What does attachment have to do with addiction?

Attachment shapes how we learn to seek safety, regulation, comfort, and connection. When those needs are not met consistently early on, some people later turn toward substances or compulsive behaviors that temporarily provide what feels missing.

Does this training only focus on substance addiction?

No. The conversation also includes food, relationships, codependency, work, spending, sex, perfectionism, technology, and other behaviors that continue despite unwanted consequences.

Will codependency and relationship patterns be discussed?

Yes. The training looks at how attachment wounds can influence not only substance use, but also relational patterns such as codependency, rescuing, overfunctioning, and fear of abandonment.

Is this helpful for mental health professionals?

Yes. Therapists, coaches, and other helping professionals can gain a more integrated framework for understanding the links between attachment, developmental trauma, nervous system regulation, shame, relationships, and addiction.

Will there be live Q&A?

Yes. The free session includes live Q&A, so attendees will have a chance to hear key questions explored in real time.

Do I need personal experience with addiction to benefit?

No. This event can also be helpful if you are supporting someone you love, working with clients, or trying to understand recurring patterns in relationships and coping.

Will this talk about shame and self-judgment?

Yes. A key part of the training is understanding how shame and self-judgment can reinforce cycles that people are already trying hard to change.

What makes this approach different from a willpower model?

Rather than asking only how to stop a behavior, this approach asks what the behavior has been trying to soothe, protect, or provide. That shift can open a more compassionate and effective path toward real change.

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