Secure: The Revolutionary Guide to Creating a Secure Life

From Amir Levine, MD, coauthor of the multimillion-copy bestseller Attached: What’s the secret to finding success, happiness, and love? You need to feel SECURE.

How do you become more connected to the people around you, without the fear of being hurt? How can you stop overthinking and letting your emotions impair your judgment? Is it possible to learn emotional resilience and truly thrive?

People with a secure attachment style are the most comfortable not just in their relationships, but also in their own skin. Living life in “secure mode” enables them to cope more effectively with challenges across many areas of life—they’re healthier, less reactive, less driven by insecurity, and better able to navigate setbacks and even social media. It is as though they move through the world with a kind of resilient bubble around them.

In this brilliant, paradigm-shifting work, Dr. Amir Levine, the world’s leading expert on translating attachment science into practice, presents new research showing that your attachment style isn’t fixed. Anyone can become SECURE.

He introduces a transformative framework to help you feel more secure in your career, your friendships, your romantic life, and beyond. Along the way, he makes a simple, revolutionary argument: when you harness the power of secure mode, you can create the life you want.

It’s never too late to become SECURE. This book will show you how.

FROM THE LAB BENCH TO THE BOOKSHELF

Dr. Levine's path bridges molecular neuroscience and clinical practice in a way that is genuinely rare. During his training at Columbia, he joined the lab of renowned neuroscientist James Schwartz and later became a Principal Investigator alongside Nobel laureate Eric Kandel on an NIH-sponsored research project studying how molecular tags on DNA form long-term memories.

In parallel, while working in a therapeutic nursery with mothers suffering from PTSD and their toddlers, he witnessed firsthand how attachment bonds could heal and transform lives. This convergence — molecular neuroscience and the lived power of secure relationships — became the foundation for his life's work.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF EXPERT

Most attachment content online comes from coaches or therapists interpreting the science secondhand. Dr. Levine is a researcher and clinician. He doesn't just explain attachment theory — he has advanced it, developing original frameworks including CARRP™, SIMIs™, and Secure Priming Therapy.

CREDENTIALS

Associate Professor, Columbia University

Board-Certified Adult Psychiatrist

Peer-Review Published Neuroscientist (Science TM, PNAS)

Nobel Winning Lab Alum (Kandel Lab)

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Director, SecureLab