Connecting Hearts
Emotional connection. It’s protective, preventive, and essential for a healthy life. Once you’ve truly felt this deep-body state of being with your child—you’re hooked.
At the Welch Center for Emotional Connection, our mission is to help parents discover the transformative power of emotional connection and provide the tools to ensure the success and happiness of the entire family. Our work is grounded in the clinical insights of our founder, Martha G. Welch, MD, and her pioneering research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
We believe—and have the science to prove—that emotional connection has the power to improve every aspect of your health: physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, and social. It protects children from stress, supports heart, brain, and gut function, improves sleep, and even boosts the immune system. When we have these feelings of connecting and melting into each other, we take it as a signal that our nervous systems are syncing up and calming down together.
The benefits of emotional connection are immediate and lifelong. All you need is each other to get started.
Free Downloadable Resources for Families
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“All of us were so disconnected, and life was all over the place.
I honestly didn’t think this was going to work. But by pushing through and really continuing the emotional connection process,
I started seeing an incredible relationship building between my children. On a whole new level—not only respecting me, but also respecting each other."
- Melissa