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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, we are talking all about cultivating healthy interdependency in relationships, which is really

one of the hallmarks of secure relating and secure attachment.

So this is an area that I think doesn't come naturally for those of us with more insecure

attachment patterns as their starting point.

But it really is such an important thing to have as a reference

point as you're doing this work so that you can be really aware of what would a secure couple do.

How would that look? And how can we bring more of that energy of balance and mutual care

and respect to whatever we are grappling within our relationship.

So we're going to be looking at this spectrum of relating from codependency at one end

through to hyper-independence at the other and then figuring out what this healthy middle

ground of interdependence looks and feels like. And then I'm going to be giving you

some more specific signs or things to work towards insofar as healthy interdependency is

concerned so that you can start to take steps towards that and cultivate that in yourself

and in your relationships. So that is what we're talking about today. Before we dive into today's

conversation, a couple of quick announcements. The first one is very exciting. And I almost

hesitate to actually announce it because it formally locks us into following through. But I am in the

process of creating a new program for couples around anxious avoidant relationships. So my masterclass

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