Welcome to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience dating, love and relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach and attachment expert, Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

So today we're going to be talking all about anxious attachment, conflict and communication.

I think that if you're listening to this and you're an anxiously attached person,

you will know from experience that communication can be really hard in relationships

and conflict in particular is really, really challenging, bordering on, you know,

panic-inducing or distressing.

And so in this episode, I'm really going to be unpacking, you know, why that is,

what's sort of going on underneath the hood for anxiously attached people when it comes

to conflict and communication of needs in relationship, you know, how that cycle can sort of

play out and how you can be your own worst enemy and what to do about it.

So hopefully you'll walk away from this,

you know, having not only greater self-awareness, but some actionable tools on how to communicate

more proactively and, you know, how you can voice your needs and also sort of manage your expectations

around other people meeting your needs in a way that

is ultimately more supportive to your relationship and hopefully can avoid some of those

nasty conflicts that can arise when we leave things too long and then it all blows up.

Before I dive into that,

I just want to let you all know that I am holding a live masterclass on the 3rd of August called Navigating Anxious Avoidant Relationships. It is going to be 90 minutes. It's really

going to do a deep dive into, you know, the anxious avoidant trap being

relationships between an anxious and an avoidant person and what that can look like.

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