A Little Bit Culty

Securely Speaking: Attachment Nerd Eli Harwood (Part 2)

May 27, 2024

Licensed therapist Eli Harwood discusses attachment patterns in relationships, parenting, and cult dynamics. Topics include loyalty in cults, conflict reactions based on attachment styles, and dark realities of Mormonism. Insightful conversation on raising securely attached children and exploring creepy group encounters.

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Understanding different parenting approaches tailored to each child is crucial for fostering healthy relationships.

Recognizing and supporting cult survivors in their journey of healing from manipulation tactics is essential for recovery.

Awareness of attachment styles and their impact on emotional responses is key to building secure and resilient relationships.

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Intro

2min

Exploring Attachment Patterns in Relationships and Parenting

21min

Exploring Love in Movies and Dark Realities of Mormonism

4min

Understanding Loyalty and Manipulation in Cults

16min

Exploring a Creepy Group and Parenting Struggles

6min

Understanding Conflict Reactions and Attachment Styles in Relationships

13min

Exploring Attachment Theory and Cult Recovery Resources

2min

This episode is sponsored by Better Help.

Eli Harwood we can’t quite quit you just yet, but we feel very secure about it. The ever-quotable and mega-helpful licensed therapist, author, and educator is back again for another episode, and breaking down what attachment patterns can mean for cult survivors and seekers, parents and children, lovers and fighters, Mars and Venus. By our calculations that means EVERYBODY should listen to this. But dear hearts, kindly back up if you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet! She’s the bee’s knees, and part 1 dropped last week. Also two-parters work best when you listen in order, but you do you. No judgies.

Show Notes: Eli Harwood is a licensed therapist and educator with more than two decades of experience helping people process relational traumas and develop secure attachment relationships in an accessible way. She wrote the guidebook Securely Attached: Transform Your Attachment Patterns Into Loving, Lasting Romantic Relationships to help folks cultivate lasting, loving relationships. Her latest title, Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting To Create Confidence, Empathy, And Resilience is available for pre-order now. Eli has three children, one husband, one cat, and an extraordinary number of plants. Under the social media moniker of Attachment Nerd, and with hundreds of thousands of followers, Eli shares her light-hearted, sensible insights on the intersections of attachment style, relationship, parenting, and more.

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Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin