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.

It's been a little while since the last episode, which I really apologize for. It was not my intention to have almost a month

off, but as some of you would know from Instagram, if you follow me there, or you might just have

guest, I had a baby two and a half weeks ago, which was a little bit earlier than expected.

I had originally planned to have lots of podcast episodes

planned and recorded and scheduled and ready to go so that they would keep rolling on when I

took some time off to have a baby. But I think I overestimated how much capacity I would have

in those final weeks of pregnancy. And that combined with the fact that

our little boy came a couple of weeks earlier than expected meant that I didn't have any of

those things that I had hoped to. So we've had a little bit of a break the past few weeks.

Everything is going well. Olli, our little boy is just gorgeous and we've been really,

really loving, soaking up the newborn bubble, which has been so very sweet and exhausting and

full on and perfectly lovely. So thank you for your patience in this little hiatus that I've had the past month or so.

But I'm really glad to be back today to offer some lessons in self-trust, control and surrender,

which are themes that I've touched on before on the show,

but really have been on my mind in this whole

experience of pregnancy, birth and the first couple of weeks of motherhood. And so while this isn't

an episode about those things, you don't have to be pregnant or you don't

have to have had a baby in order to relate to what I'm going to share, I thought that I'd offer

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