328: Attachment Styles and Relationship Patterns (with Tracy Crossley)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Tracy Crossley is a relationship expert, who specializes in treating individuals with unhealthy life and relationship patterns. She is the author of Overcoming Insecure Attachment: 8 Proven Steps to Recognizing Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Styles and Building Healthier, Happier Relationships and joins me this week to share her wisdom on all things attachment styles and relationship patterns.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Dr. Jen Riding, and on this episode, we'll be talking about relationships, specifically |
| 0:08.7 | feeling more consistent and secure and emotionally safe in your relationships and how these feelings |
| 0:15.8 | relate back to our attachment styles that we learned in our childhoods. |
| 0:21.3 | Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, |
| 0:26.6 | happy, aligned, and alive. |
| 0:29.0 | You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back |
| 0:34.1 | and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey, my friends, welcome back. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Dr. Jen Ritey. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the Vibrant Happy Women podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | And today we'll be talking about attachment and relationships. |
| 0:52.6 | You know, we all have relationship patterns that we employ in our |
| 0:57.6 | friendships, in our partnerships or marriages with our kids. And it's interesting to step back and |
| 1:04.8 | analyze why we do what we do. One of those patterns I had for really almost a decade, maybe more, was the withdrawal and |
| 1:15.3 | pursuit pattern. How does this look? Well, being someone who was anxiously attached from |
| 1:22.3 | childhood, I would pursue my spouse, hoping he would meet my emotional needs. He, being more avoidantly |
| 1:32.7 | attached, taking care of number one, taking care of his own emotional needs, would withdraw |
| 1:38.4 | and not want that emotional connection. And so the pattern went very destructive and unhealthy. I'm so glad we |
| 1:46.0 | put an end to that. Now I've learned how to meet my own emotional needs, largely using the tools |
| 1:52.3 | that we talk so much about on this podcast. And now that I'm less needy, my husband doesn't need |
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