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.

Today I'm going to be talking about five ways in which the fearful avoidant attachment style

differs from the dismissive avoidant attachment style.

I've received so many requests recently to create more content and resources around the fearful avoidant attachment style,

which by the way is also referred to as disorganized attachment. So I'll be using those

terms interchangeably for the purposes of this episode.

And I'm not surprised that I've received so many requests because I think that it is the

sometimes forgotten about attachment style. It is certainly lesser known than, you know,

anxious attachment and avoidant attachment, dismissive avoidant.

And I think it often gets lumped in under that umbrella of avoidant attachment when in reality

there are lots of distinguishing features and it really is distinctive in many ways.

And, you know, that's important to recognize because it means that,

you know, the particular struggles of the fearful avoidant are different to that, the dismissive

avoidant. And also the path to healing looks different, right? Because, you know, you're triggered

by different things. Your growth edges are going to look

different. And the path forward is going to look a little different too. So even though there are

some, you know, crossovers and overlap in the Venn diagram of fearful avoidant and dismissive

avoidant, there's also lots of differences. And this episode is going to cover five of those.

Before I dive in, I just want to remind you that I am holding a workshop in a couple of weeks

how to navigate anxious avoidant relationships. So this is going to be a 90 minute live

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