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, I am going to be talking all about some key similarities and differences

between the anxious attachment style and the fearful avoidant or disorganized attachment style.

Now, I get possibly more requests about fearful avoidant attachment than anything else,

which is saying something given that, A, I get a lot of requests about a lot of things,

and B, that the vast majority of my audience falls into the bucket of anxious attachment. But it is really

one of those areas that seems to be maybe underdeveloped in online literature and content around

attachment theory and an area that I know a lot of people have an interest in and really identify

with aspects

of the fearful avoidant or disorganized attachment style. And I'm really looking for resources

specific to that attachment style because it can kind of get sidelined a little in favor of

anxious and avoidant attachment being the two dominant, insecure attachment styles. And I think that's in part

because it's thought to only represent around 5% of the population, so it's obviously the smallest

category, although I am a little skeptical as to those statistics. But nevertheless, I am

heeding the call in this episode today, offering some insights into the ways in which anxious

attachment and fearful avoidant attachment differ. I did do an episode ages ago, probably two years

ago, about dismissive avoidant and fearful avoidant attachment and the ways in which those two

differ. So if you're interested in kind of that side of the street, you can search for

fearful avoidant attachment in the podcast and you should be able to find that old episode as well.

Okay, so that's what we're going to be talking about today. Before I dive into that, an announcement.

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