#1: 5 Traits of the Anxious Attachment Style
On Attachment
Stephanie Rigg
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we're unpacking 5 key traits of the anxious attachment style - particularly in the context of adult romantic relationships. We'll talk about the anxious person's high need for love and affection, the fear of abandonment, struggles with uncertainty and inconsistency, overthinking, and jealousy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience dating, love and relationships. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm your host, relationship coach and attachment expert, Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here. |
| 0:31.8 | So today we're going to be talking about five traits of the anxious attachment style. |
| 0:38.6 | Now, if you are familiar with my work, if you've been following me on Instagram for a little while, |
| 0:43.7 | there's a good chance you've heard me speak about anxious attachment. And that's because it forms a really big part of my work, both with private clients. You know, a lot of my private |
| 0:51.0 | clients struggle with various expressions of anxious attachment |
| 0:56.4 | and a big part of our work together is working through some of those patterns and |
| 1:03.3 | you know rewiring reprogramming to try and create greater security and confidence and clarity in relationships. |
| 1:13.7 | And in addition to that, my signature program, Healing Anxious Attachment is obviously about |
| 1:20.0 | healing anxious attachment. So that's a six-week program that really takes people in the |
| 1:25.0 | journey of understanding themselves, |
| 1:30.9 | understanding what's going on for them and learning how to self-soothe, |
| 1:36.3 | learning how to reprogram some of those, you know, limiting beliefs and core wounds and learning how to experience relationships in a much healthier way. |
| 1:39.9 | So anxious attachment is kind of my bread and butter and will no doubt form a good portion |
| 1:49.4 | of the things that I speak about here, as I know that a lot of people in my community and |
| 1:54.7 | my audience are also of that ilk and are really interested to learn more about anxious attachment. |
| 2:01.8 | So with all of that being said, today we're going to discuss just a bit of an overview of |
| 2:07.9 | five common traits that many most anxiously attached people will probably be able to relate to. |
| 2:16.6 | And this is specifically in the context of |
| 2:19.9 | adult romantic relationships. Now, this is not an exhaustive list by any measure. And in the course, |
| 2:29.9 | my Healing Anxious Attachment course, we obviously go into this in a lot more detail. |
| 2:40.6 | But I've distilled this list down to some of the real headline characteristics that I think, |
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