EP 565: Body Image and Your Attachment Style: What You Need to Know for Healing

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode, I’m getting real about body image—and how much our attachment styles influence the way we see ourselves. I share my own journey of moving from desperate-for-validation energy to deeply rooted self-love. If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and felt not good enough, I see you. This one’s for you.

Inside today’s episode:

I realized my relationship with my body was impacting every other relationship in my life—including romantic ones.
Healing started when I stopped seeking outside validation and began caring for my body with compassion.
My worth was never about how I looked; it was about how I felt about myself. And that changed everything.

🩵 You can’t hate your body into healing. But you can love it into transformation.

I want to invite you to stop your patterns of unhealthy relationships and finally choose yourself. You deserve to do the inner work that will support you in becoming securely attached, so you can easily attract the relationships you deserve.

Take the your first step towards secure attachment today:

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life.
0:22.3	Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing you
0:28.4	exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. You deserve to feel empowered,
0:34.8	secure, and love. Buckle up and let's get vulnerable. Welcome to the
0:42.9	Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan, and today's episode is all about
0:48.8	body image and your attachment style. This is something that I myself have really, really worked through.
0:58.0	And I know so many of you listening have also struggled with your body image, whether you're
1:03.6	going through it currently, really, really deeply, or it's something that maybe you've experienced
1:09.5	in the past. But I know this, the world that
1:13.3	we live in, whether that's, you know, social media, the modern world, the things that we prioritize
1:20.4	in our world, it is impossible to be a human being this day and age and not have body image issues. We are bombarded with messages
1:31.5	about what we're supposed to look like, what we're supposed to eat, how we're supposed to
1:37.0	work out, what our hair is supposed to look like, that we're never supposed to age, that, you know,
1:43.2	being, being overweight is lazy. There's all of this
1:48.2	stigma and shame and all of this messaging that is still so, so present in our world around body
1:57.7	shaming. And the thing that I think I want to talk to you about is how we have to make
2:06.5	the conscious effort to change how we relate to our bodies and to change our body image,
2:13.1	because if we just operate in the world as is, we are going to maintain a really unhealthy
2:20.1	relationship with our bodies. And then I need you to understand this, and we'll get into this
2:25.3	today, your relationship with your body is also impacting your romantic relationships, and it's
2:32.3	impacting them in a huge way. We'll talk about why that is
2:36.0	and what you can do about it. But first off, I just want to send you so much love. And I want to
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