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, we're talking all about how to make sense of conflicting relationship advice.

So I think that in the online world in particular, but maybe even outside of that,

we are pretty constantly bombarded with different opinions, you know, different ideas,

different advice on how to navigate relationships. And while you could say,

you're having so much input and information can be supportive and can allow us to really learn

more about ourselves and cultivate, you know, more awareness of our patterns and insights and all of those things, which we could say

is a positive. I think it's undeniable that at times it could feel almost like a bombardment.

And for those of us who are maybe a little lacking in self-trust or maybe, you know,

prone to doubting ourselves second-guessing things.

I'm having so much information and so much conflicting information, particularly when delivered maybe without nuance or context with a lot of certainty, it can be really hard to know

what's true or what's right for me. And so I'm going to go through today a few sets of conflicting advice, not with a view

so much to determining for you, which is true or right, but rather, I suppose, elucidating

the reasons why all of it can be true. And I think so much of, you know, developing a stronger

sense of self-trust

and discernment is being able to ascertain, well, is this right for me rather than is this

objectively true? In a general sense, is this applicable to everyone? So teasing out, I suppose,

when, where, why you might, you you might find certain advice resonates with you and

why you might leave other advice as not being applicable to you or not being, you know, the thing

that you need. So that's what we're going to be talking about today. Before I get into that,

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