#398 - How to Self-Soothe Anxious Attachment

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When you have an anxious attachment style, it's hard to feel secure in your most important relationships. But learning how to self-soothe anxious attachment and create a stronger relationship with yourself can be the path to emotional freedom.

On today's episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, we're discussing how you can stop relying on the people around you to regulate your anxiety, and learn to manage anxious feelings internally. This not only helps you have better relationships, it makes you stronger, happier, and more resilient.

My guest is attachment expert Thais Gibson, a counselor, YouTuber, and founder of the Personal Development School. Thais shared some eye-opening insights in this episode that you won't want to miss!

You'll learn:

00:00 Introduction to Attachment Theory
08:19 Thais' Background and Interest in Attachment Theory
16:21 Understanding Attachment Styles
28:15 The Danger of Pathologizing Attachment Styles
33:51 The Impact of Attachment Styles on Relationships
39:11 Strategies for Healing Attachment Wounds
41:15 Reprogramming Core Wounds
45:40 The Power of Auto-Suggestion

And so much more. I hope you'll tune in!

xoxo,

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

P.S. — Ready to transform your attachment patterns? Schedule a free consultation: https://www.growingself.com/schedule-free-consultation/

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0:00.0	Do you fear abandonment or often feel worried about your relationships?
0:06.7	Like you need a lot of reassurance from your partner telling you that everything is okay.
0:12.5	We love you.
0:14.0	But like a lot.
0:15.5	Um, if so, then you, my friend could, could have an anxious attachment style. And on today's episode of the
0:24.4	Love, Happiness and Success podcast, we are talking about that and specifically how you can
0:30.3	learn how to self-soothe anxious attachment and develop more secure connections. And my guest for this important conversation is
0:41.8	Taise Gibson. She's a leading voice and attachment theory and the founder of the personal
0:47.5	development school. Taise is a counselor, speaker, YouTuber, and author of Learning Love. Build the best relationships of your life,
0:58.9	your life using Integrated Attachment Theory. And today she's here to share her expertise with you.
1:07.9	Welcome, Taiz. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here with you.
1:12.9	Yeah, me too. Because this is such an important conversation. You know, attachment styles can
1:21.8	often be this invisible force at work in people's relationships. And sometimes they don't even realize the power
1:30.4	that that can have. So I'm just thrilled to be exploring this topic with you on today's podcast.
1:38.0	And just to begin, because I'm always just so curious about the people that I speak with on the show,
1:43.1	let's talk a little bit about you
1:44.9	and your background, but like how you got interested in this specialty. What's the story there?
1:53.2	Yeah, I think there's sort of a twofold story there. I mean, the first part is I definitely
1:57.1	saw a lot of chaos growing up in my own childhood. So, saw a really intense divorce,
2:02.0	dragged out for a very long time, a lot of sort of fighting and arguing. And I think I was sort of put,
2:06.5	it was like the parentified child. I was definitely put in the middle a lot from a young age.
2:10.3	So I think like the downside is that that's difficult. But the upside of that was that I had like
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