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Lauren Lindsey Porter, MSW, is the Co-Director of the Centre for Attachment (www.centre forattachment. com) and

Secretary for the Infant Mental Health Association Aotearoa New Zealand Executive Committee. She is the mother of Abby ( 8) and Eli ( 4), and wife to Joel. She lives in peaceful Lyttelton, New Zealand.