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#62: Understanding Your Nervous System with Sarah Baldwin

On Attachment

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The Relationship Between Anxiety and Love

Love is the experience of, let's say I'm anxiously attached, my experience of love is I'm just making a possibility up. That's all our system knows. So guess what happens? I need this person and they are really preoccupied with their work. And so we come together and guess what transpires? When an occurrence occurs, I threat detector says, what intel do I have on arguments? The avoidant person says, whoa, I have information about how people harm you. People aren't safe. And in a millisecond, we're pulled to that island where we retreat,. We shut off, we feel like we just have to get away.

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