#98: Ghosting: Why It Happens & How to Process
On Attachment
Stephanie Rigg
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Does ghosting leave you feeling anxious, confused, and questioning your self-worth? If so, you’re not alone.
Today, we're diving deep into this all-too-common dating phenomenon. We'll explore why ghosting occurs, the common impacts it has on self-esteem, and how to give yourself the closure and peace you desire.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg, |
| 0:22.8 | and I'm really glad you're here. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment. |
| 0:29.4 | In today's episode, we are talking all about ghosting, why it happens, what to do if it happens |
| 0:35.1 | to you, how to process it, how to emerge on the other side of |
| 0:39.6 | that experience without feeling really demoralized, without internalizing that and making |
| 0:45.3 | it all about you, without feeling really deflated and jaded about the whole process of online |
| 0:52.0 | dating and modern dating and everything that that can entail |
| 0:55.7 | when practices like ghosting are unfortunately somewhat common and probably more so than they've |
| 1:02.8 | ever been before. So I'm going to give you a bit of a pep talk around ghosting, |
| 1:07.9 | unpacking, as I said, why people might ghost and what you can do about it to keep |
| 1:13.0 | yourself intact if it does happen to you. Before we dive into today's episode, a couple of quick |
| 1:19.4 | announcements. Healing angst attachment is now closed, so you don't have to listen to me telling |
| 1:23.8 | you all about that for another few months at least. But I am holding a live |
| 1:27.9 | masterclass in a few weeks' time on building trust. So this is going to be around self-trust and |
| 1:34.0 | relational trust and will encompass everything that would fall under that umbrella. So building |
| 1:39.8 | your own sense of self up so that you can stop doubting yourself so much that you can really trust in your own sense of self up so that you can stop doubting yourself so much that you can really |
| 1:45.9 | trust in your own perception of a situation, trust in your needs and your ability to advocate |
| 1:53.5 | for yourself, and also looking at the relational piece. So how to build trust if you have a trust |
| 1:59.8 | wound from a previous relationship, how to rebuild |
| 2:02.2 | trust in a relationship if there's been a breach of trust. It's going to be very comprehensive |
| 2:07.2 | on that very big topic. And you can sign up for that via the link of my show notes. This one is, |
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