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A good, secure attachment lowers our blood pressure. It lowers our heart rate. It lowers our stress hormone cortisol level.

It rises levels of dopamine, oxytocin, neophen,

all those feel-good neurohormones. Love is the best medicine we have.

Hi there. Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show. I'm Laverne Cox. So a few years ago in therapy with Jennifer

Burton, who some of you have met through this podcast, she said this thing about attachment

style to me. I was like, what are you talking about? And she was like, there was this theory about

attachment and I think it could be really useful in your work and she suggested

this book and I downloaded the book and I started reading it and never finished reading it

because like life happens and it keeps coming up in therapy. So then I discovered Dr. Wendy Walsh

and that she specializes in attachment theory.

And I thought since I never finished reading the book, that this would be a really great opportunity for me to learn more about attachment theory to help my life and my own therapeutic process and maybe help you as well. So for anyone else out there who has not

finished the book, just listen to this podcast. Dr. Wendy will break it all down for you in a brilliant

and very clear way. Dr. Wendy Walsh is a psychologist specializing in human development and

attachment theory.

She is an author of three books about the science of love, a professor of psychology at

California State University Channel Islands, and an award-winning television journalist and radio

host at KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.

She also has her own podcast, Mating Matters, which uses evolutionary psychology

to explain human mating strategy. Please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Wendy Walsh. It's going to be

Mage.

Hello, Dr. Wendy Walsh. Welcome to the podcast.

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