10 Most Common Attachments That Detach Us From Ourselves w/ Clinical Psychologist Bob Rosen

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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When you read messages on spirituality, you will find many references on the dangers of what we are attached to. I grew up on the Bible which I feel taught attachment to nothing but God. In recent years I’ve followed the works of Anthony de Mello and Dr David R Hawkins on the dangers of attachment, from a spiritual standpoint. Now however, someone came to focus on attachments from a clinical psychology perspective. Dr. Bob Rosen holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and serves as faculty in George Washington University's School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Bob is Founder and CEO of Healthy Companies and has advised over 500 CEOs across sixty countries. He previously authored the New York Times bestseller "Grounded" and Washington Post bestseller "Conscious." His new book is, Detach: Ditch Your Baggage to Live a More Fulfilling Life, and in it his research led to 10 categories of attachments that most hinder us. My interest in this is acute and personal, as I’ve come to realize how much I imprisoned myself with all the duties, roles, and achievements in my life that I directly attached to my identity. And in this, I was more and more at threat. If I couldn’t retain control over all the attachments, the very root of my identity was at threat. And it nearly wrecked me. Someone once asked me who I was if you took away all I’d done and all the titles and labels in my life. And, I had no answer. As you will hear Bob state, it’s not that all attachments are bad, the question is how severe is the attachment? He says, “The more we identify with our attachments, the more we suffer.” But Bob’s focus on detachment is not about disconnecting from the world, but connecting to ourselves. Which I now feel is the root of our security. If you go to bobrosen.com you can take an attachment assessment and other resources. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode, 10 most common
0:09.0	attachments that detach us from ourselves. When you read messages on spirituality, which I pursue a lot,
0:17.7	you'll find a lot of references to the dangers of what we're attached to.
0:21.5	Now, I grew up on the Bible, which I feel taught attachment to nothing but God.
0:27.3	In recent years, I followed the works of people like Anthony Demelo and Dr. David R. Hawkins
0:32.5	on the dangers of attachment from a spiritual standpoint.
0:36.4	Now, however, someone came to focus on attachments
0:39.9	from a clinical psychology perspective, Dr. Bob Rosen. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology
0:47.9	from the University of Pittsburgh and serves as faculty in George Washington University's
0:53.7	School of Medicine, Department of
0:55.9	Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Bob is founder and CEO of Healthy Companies. He's advised over 500
1:01.8	CEOs across 60 countries. He previously authored the New York Times bestseller grounded and
1:08.4	Washington post-bestseller Cons conscious. His new book is detach.
1:14.4	Ditch your baggage to live a more fulfilling life. And in it, his research led to 10 categories
1:19.7	of attachments that most hinder us. My interest in this is acute and personal as I've come to
1:27.3	realize how much I've imprisoned myself
1:30.3	with all the duties and roles and achievements in my life that I directly attached to my identity.
1:36.7	And in this, I was more and more at threat. If I couldn't retain control over all those attachments,
1:41.9	the very root of my identity was then at threat. And it nearly
1:45.3	wrecked me. Someone once asked me who I was, if you took away everything I'd done, all the titles,
1:51.4	all the labels in my life, I just didn't have an answer. So as you're going to hear Bob state,
1:57.5	it's not that all attachments are bad. It's the, how severe they are, ultimately.
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