Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online, in, and on the go. Shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Headspace Studio.

Hi, everyone. It's Sam here.

Welcome to Radio Headspace.

Yesterday, we dove deep into the importance of feeling seen, understood, and tended to by our primary caregivers. According to recent research, many of us, around 40% were not graced with a secure

attachment, meaning we didn't have the best bonding experience with our caregivers in that first year of life.

Luckily, we have the power to repair some aspects of this through mindfulness so that we can enjoy and bond with our loved ones more easily as adults.

And according to Amir Levine and Rachel Heller, authors of Attached, certain attachment styles clash and are difficult but not impossible to make work in romantic relationships.

So here are some tips to begin investigating and repairing some problematic patterns.

First, mindfulness meditation offers a means of building a trusting and secure relationship

within yourself.

In essence, you're re-parenting yourself by greeting your thoughts and feelings with

acceptance, compassion, patience, and ultimately love.

As you continue to show up for yourself consistently in meditation, you begin to build trust

and feel seen and understood as you allow yourself to be just as you are.

Meditation can also be helpful in forming a coherent narrative about your life, meaning a story that feels complete and makes sense instead of one that is filled with confusion and misunderstanding of why things happened.

I actually talked about this in a recent episode on personal narratives, and I'll link that in the show notes for you.

If you've experienced trauma in childhood, and even if you haven't, I would highly recommend seeking the help of a mental health provider to explore these experiences in a safe and

productive way. And if you didn't have the most warm and fuzzy bond with your parents, not to worry.

...