The Examined Life What's your attachment strategy? [Jess Morey]
Jan 18, 2024
"What's your attachment strategy?" features Jess Morey, a meditation teacher and contemplative coach. The podcast explores how our early life experiences shape our attachment strategies and impact our adult lives. They discuss topics such as healing through meditation, applying attachment theory to parenthood, and the implications on talk therapy.
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Practice Over Scripture
- Contemplative practice is primarily meditation, not just scripture or philosophy.
- Jessica Morey treats texts as pragmatic how-to manuals and emphasizes practice over reading.
TM Was A Gateway Experience
- Jess describes starting with TM and experiencing deep physical shifts like extended sleep.
- Over months she noticed reduced anxiety, clearer thinking, and less catastrophic thinking.
Attachment Is Preverbal And Somatic
- Attachment patterns form implicitly in the first three years and are somatic, not verbal.
- That makes them hard to change with talk therapy alone and opens a role for meditation.