Mettagroup

Heal attachment injury through meditation 🧘
Understand your attachment style + relationships ♾️
I Love You Keep Going podcast 🎙️
Begin your journey ↓

Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mettagroup! Based on a 2600-year-old Buddhist teaching and drawing on John Bowlby's Attachement Theory, Mettagroup offers guided meditations, intensive classes, retreats and on-on-one mentoring to help you see more deeply and clearly into your life. Wondering where to begin? Join us every weekday for Morning Meditation with founder George Haas. Find out more at mettagroup.org.

09/08/2026

Comment FREEDOM to join the September workshop 💙

If you find yourself dysregulated by positive experiences
If you’re stuck in a cycle of withdrawal vs clinging for control
If you self-sabotage and struggle to find the root cause

Join George Haas for a live workshop “Living Life Fee from Self-Sabotage” 💙

You deserve a life defined by opportunities embraced (not missed). Save your spot and make the first step

09/06/2026

What it means to be authentic in relationships

In this short excerpt from the latest episode of 🎙️I Love You, Keep Going🎙️ George Haas explains how inauthenticity is the cause of one of the biggest relationship dilemmas.

Want to learn more about relationship dynamics through the lens of attachment style and the Mettagroup Approach?

👉Comment ATTACHMENT and we will send you a free mini-course “The 5 Signs You May Have Attachment Injury”

09/03/2026

In this week’s episode of 🎙️I Love You, Keep Going🎙️ George is joined by Rev. Mikey Noechel

It’s a beautiful conversation about authenticity, relationships, addiction and connection

Listen to the full podcast episode on Youtube.
🔗 in bio

09/02/2026

Sometimes, the hardest part is knowing what’s real.

A small moment happens between you and your partner, and suddenly something inside you feels unsettled.

Your mind starts searching for an explanation. Your body tightens. You want reassurance, clarity, closeness — anything that will make the uncertainty go away.
And yet, your partner may be experiencing that exact same moment completely differently.

This is one of the reasons attachment injury can be so painful.

We don’t just respond to what is happening now. We can also respond to what our nervous system has learned to expect from closeness, distance, connection, and uncertainty.

So the work isn’t about forcing yourself to “stop overreacting.”
It’s about becoming intimate with your own inner experience.
It’s about learning that when fear arises, you can stay with yourself.

You can breathe.
You can notice.
You can feel what hurts without immediately turning that pain into a story about what your partner is doing — or what it means about you.

And slowly, that changes the way you meet the people you love.

If you want to explore whether attachment injury may be showing up in your relationships, comment ATTACHMENT and I’ll send you the free mini-course, “The 5 Signs You May Have Attachment Injury & How To Move Beyond It.”

09/01/2026

I really thought awareness was enough

You can understand your attachment patterns intellectually and still find yourself responding from the same place when a relationship feels uncertain. That’s part of what makes disorganised attachment so difficult to work with: knowing what’s happening doesn’t necessarily mean your nervous system knows how to respond differently. This is the kind of work I have spent decades exploring.

My name is George Haas, and I am the Founding Teacher of Mettagroup.

Mettagroup brings together Buddhist meditation and attachment theory to help people work with the patterns underneath their relationships, rather than simply trying to think their way out of them.

The shift starts with:
🌀Understanding what keeps the pattern going
🌀Learning to notice your responses in real time
🌀Creating space for a different way of relating

Understanding the pattern gives you language for what’s happening, but healing asks you to work with the deeper conditioning underneath it. That’s where meditation can become more than a way to calm down. It can give you a way to observe your internal experience closely enough to begin responding differently.

And you don’t have to figure this out alone. Mettagroup’s Meditation x Attachment Method combines attachment education with meditation practices specifically designed to support attachment repair and more secure functioning.

Comment ATTACHMENT and we’ll send you access to our free mini training The 5 Signs You May Have Attachment Injury & How To Move Beyond It

08/29/2026

A person with secure attachment style
is someone who sees
🌀themselves as capable of getting their needs met with support from others
🌀the world as a benevolent place
🌀their partner as someone separate, equal and reliable
🌀other people as well-meaning and collaborative
🌀themselves as free to be spontaneous
🌀emotions as safe to express and explore

What if you’re missing this part?

We often think of secure attachment as something you either have or you don’t.

But if you never learn how to build security from the inside, you can keep repeating the same relationship patterns without understanding what’s driving them.

This is where the Mettagroup Method comes in. Rather than stopping at identifying your attachment style, the method brings together attachment theory and meditation practices to work with the underlying patterns that shape how we relate.

It uses Metta-Vipassana meditation alongside a clinically proven protocol to work with early attachment conditioning.

Because knowing your attachment style is useful. But if you only know the label and never work with the patterns underneath it, you may miss the opportunity to create something different.

The Mettagroup Method focuses on:
🪷Understanding what’s happening beneath the pattern�Instead of only asking “What’s my attachment style?”, the work looks at the internal processes that shape how you experience yourself, other people, and relationships.
🪷Practising new ways of relating internally�The aim isn’t to simply think differently about yourself. Through meditation and attachment-focused practices, you’re creating repeated experiences that can support a more secure internal model.
🪷Bringing that security into your relationships�The real value is what happens beyond the practice. Greater awareness and emotional regulation can give you more choice in how you respond, rather than automatically following familiar patterns.

The more we examine these patterns, the easier it is to see we are not them.

Follow for more on attachment, relationships, and the Mettagroup Method.

07/22/2026

Join Mettagroup Founding teacher George Haas live every Thursday at 4 pm ET/1pm PT (new time!) for a FREE Weekly Talk and Guided Meditation. Each week we will delve into the connections between Attachment and Meditation through the lens of specific topics.⁠
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Join us on Zoom (password: metta) at the link in bio or https://www.mettagroup.org/weekly-dharma-talk

07/17/2026

Today we discuss how to set limits without going avoidant or cutting people off and why boundaries are important as we earn security and heal.

Listen now at the link in bio or https://www.mettagroup.org/podcast

07/10/2026

Ready to undo the patterns that have made romantic partnerships unbearable? Want to experience the kind of love I listed above?

Join us for our brand new version of Meditation x Attachment Level One on Relationship Immersions.

When: 3 Saturdays in a row - July 11th, 18th, and 25th
Time: 9am-1pm PT each day.
Sign up here or the link in bio: https://www.mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment-level-one

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230 S Coronado Street
Los Angeles, CA
90057

Telephone

+12133780489

Website

https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here

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