You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, which is Episode 100, very exciting, we are talking about how to stop

taking things so personally. So this is something

that I know a lot of people really struggle with and I think there can be a tendency to be

really hard on ourselves and to experience this, you know, taking things personally as something

that's wrong with us that we need to change about

ourselves because that means we are overly weak or fragile or emotional in a way that we

perceive as being wrong or in need of changing. And so I'm going to share some thoughts on

taking things personally, why we might do that, what might be the underlying

drivers or wounds of that, and offer you some reframes so that you can maybe

depersonalize people's behavior and depersonalized situations and prevent yourself from

participating in that really unhelpful storytelling that so many of us do, where we make ourselves

the centre of the universe and suffer as a result. But also some more nuanced shifts that allow you

to hold both things to really honour what you're feeling in response to someone's behaviour while

not taking that additional step of adding to your suffering by making

it all about you. So that's what we're going to be talking about today. Before I dive into that,

a couple of quick announcements. As I said, celebrating that this is episode 100 of the podcast.

This podcast was launched in April of 2022 and has been released weekly with no breaks,

I don't think, or maybe a quick break in January this year, but has been very much a labor

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