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169. Why We Love the Way We Love: Attachment Styles with Dr. Becky Kennedy

We Can Do Hard Things

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Attraction and Adulthood Is Activation of Our Earliest Attachment Patterns

Dr. Becky: Attraction and adulthood is activation of our earliest attachment patterns. Our body is saying, I know how to be the corresponding puzzle piece to this person. And we can also see this if you're someone who's thinking, yeah, I didn't have some big tea trauma in my childhood. Dr. Becky: It's because home for me is trying hard to get someone's attention who is emotionally distant. That was my mama. that was my first marriage. How many times do you think a kid had to work hard to get attention, had to perform, had to be a certain way? Well, that's a very practice circuit. This is why attachment in the

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