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, I'm going to be sharing with you five reasons why you might struggle

apologizing. I think that this is a really important

conversation to have and a really important area of our relational patterns to bring more

conscious awareness too, because I know for a lot of people, myself included, that apologising

can feel really hard sometimes. We can have a lot of resistance, a lot of reluctance. And it's

something that's really interesting to reflect on. What stories am I telling myself? What is

preventing me from saying sorry, from taking responsibility, from apologizing to someone

who I may have heard or who may be upset with me,

what's holding me back from doing that? What resistance am I experiencing and why?

I think this is so important to have awareness around because being able to safely repair

after a disagreement after conflict is so fundamental to building healthy, secure relationships.

And this really applies irrespective of whether we're talking romantic relationships,

friendships, you know, colleagues, family, being able to have these conversations,

these repair conversations in a mature, healthy way is really fundamental.

So that's what we're going to be talking about today.

Some of the reasons why that might feel hard, just so we can bring a little more conscious

awareness to it and go to those conversations and be in those moments with a bit more self-awareness so that we're

not just acting from fear, from woundedness, you know, from defensiveness, which I think is a big

thing when it comes to apologising. Before we dive into that, a couple of quick announcements.

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