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're going to be

talking all about how to manage anxiety in early dating. So this is a topic that is

requested all the time. I know that a lot of my content usually tends towards relational stuff,

meaning navigating dynamics while you're actually in a relationship. But I recognize that for a lot of people, that might not be the situation that you're in

and you're actually in that casual dating world and experiencing the ups and downs of

anxious attachment or whatever other relational challenges that you have in the context of early dating and really looking

for support in how to navigate that process with more confidence, with more groundedness in a way

that actually allows you to enjoy the process rather than feeling like it's just a source of

stress and overwhelm and anxiety.

So I'm going to be contextualizing why anxiety can find us in that early dating process,

why it can feel really stressful and overwhelming, why it can trigger some of our most

tender parts.

And then also giving you some really practical and concrete tips on how to keep yourself grounded

and how to hopefully maintain or build a sense of confidence within yourself

so that you can be in that dating process from a place of more ease and enjoyment

and all of those things that actually allow you to make the most of it.

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

Before we dive into that, a couple of quick announcements.

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