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How Attachment Styles Fundamentally Affect ALL Relationships (+ Understanding Your Attachment Style) w/ Jessica Baum

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Jun 14, 2024
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Jessica Baum
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor and Relationship Expert Jessica Baum discusses adult attachment styles and their impact on relationships. Topics include understanding anxious attachment, altering attachment styles, effective communication, and couple therapy. Insights on dependency versus interdependency, healing trauma, and therapy techniques. Recommendations for books like 'Anxiously Attached' and 'Attached' are also shared.
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INSIGHT

Origins of Attachment Styles

  • Attachment styles originate from how babies connect with primary caregivers in the first 18 months.
  • Secure attachment leads to healthier relationships; anxious, avoidant, and disorganized reflect insecure attachments.
ADVICE

Healing Anxious Attachment

  • Validate your original attachment wound by feeling its truth in your body.
  • Build current relationships that consistently support and contradict old insecure patterns.
ANECDOTE

Disorganized Attachment Story

  • Jessica experienced disorganized attachment in a relationship with unpredictable partner behaviors.
  • This caused intense internal conflict but was only present in pockets, not constantly.
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