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 going to be talking

about five ways in which the Fear 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. 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 at 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 cross overs 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 masterclass and to my earlier point I will be covering both

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