Breaking The Anxious Attachment Cycle: 3 Steps To Take
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Apr 10, 2025
Discover the impact of anxious attachment on relationships and the importance of developing internal safety. Learn practical strategies to manage anxiety and enhance emotional connections, including grounding techniques for difficult conversations. The discussion emphasizes recognizing false flags in behavior and practicing calm connection, transforming the way you interact and perceive relationships.
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Core of Anxious Attachment
Anxious attachment stems from needing another person's well-being to feel safe.
This creates externalized worry and hypervigilance, focusing on the other person's state.
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Root of Anxious Attachment
Anxious attachment often develops from needing to protect oneself from volatile caregivers.
This leads to externalizing wants, needs, and sense of safety.
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Develop Internal Safety
Develop internal safety to break free from externalizing it onto others.
Recognize that needing someone back after a breakup often stems from externalized safety.
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Anxious attachment can make any relationship feel fraught with tension and threat. It doesn't have to be that way, and there are clear steps you can take that really do get results. Start with these ones.
(00:00:00) - Anxious attachment refresher
(00:04:04) - Priority number one: develop safety internally—and how
(00:09:37) - Number two: recognize false flags
(00:14:10) - Number three: practice calm connection