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 are talking all about pleasure, rest and feeling good and how you can use

these things as tools to increase your sense of joy, well-being and vitality.

Now, this as a topic might seem a little bit random for some of you, but this is actually

one of my favorite things to speak about and teach on. And as a little fun fact, when I

first started coaching long before I had a podcast or even really spoke that much about attachment,

this was the kind of thing that I was focusing on because I had just come from being a corporate

lawyer and I was perhaps in reaction to everything that I saw in that environment, which was

the opposite of pleasure, rest and feeling good. It was an environment that was characterised

by burnout and overworking and hustle. And I had such a visceral reaction to that as much as I

spent a few years participating in it and being

very much swept up in it all. As time went on, I really felt like my eyes were opened to how much

I didn't want that for myself, how costly it was to operate at that level of chronic

stress and busyness and burnout.

And I think once you see it, it's kind of hard to unsee it. And personally, even though I did

live like that for probably the better part of a decade, I think that deep down I've always had

a baseline orientation towards pleasure and joy and spaciousness

and rest and ease. That's a very comfortable home base for me. And so I definitely experienced

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