Welcome to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast.

I'm your host, certified religious transition and trauma recovery coach, Terry Hales.

I help people step out of the shadows of religious fear and shame and embrace their

authentic selves with love and empathy.

If you're ready to throw off the shackles of learned binary thinking and explore a more nuanced

approach to life, this is your playground.

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast.

It's so good to be back.

And I'm really excited for the topics we're going to be covering over the next little bit.

I've been on the call with people who are donating monthly and they've given me lots of topics that they'd like to cover, including today's topic, which is how do we practice secure attachment in relationships in real time? What does that look like in real relationships?

And so for this conversation, I have employed the services of my resident expert, Kevin Hales,

my husband, he's a marriage and family therapist. He is coming to us

after a busy, busy work week. And I'm excited to have you here. Thanks, babe. So we're going to be

talking about just kind of having a conversation about secure attachment. We're going to be talking

about the different attachment styles,

how you can begin practicing with a partner to start creating a more secure attachment in your home.

And I'll just be asking questions as we go and kind of guiding this conversation.

And we're just going to talk for a while until we feel like we've gotten a good hold on this

topic. Does that sound okay? Sounds like a plan. Awesome. So one of the big questions I was asked

in our weekly call was, can you practice secure attachment patterns in relationships with people

who are insecurely attached. And how would

you even get started? Um, I think that's a good question. I guess my need your response is to say yes,

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