Do you fear abandonment or often feel worried about your relationships?

Like you need a lot of reassurance from your partner telling you that everything is okay.

We love you.

But like a lot.

Um, if so, then you, my friend could, could have an anxious attachment style. And on today's episode of the

Love, Happiness and Success podcast, we are talking about that and specifically how you can

learn how to self-soothe anxious attachment and develop more secure connections. And my guest for this important conversation is

Taise Gibson. She's a leading voice and attachment theory and the founder of the personal

development school. Taise is a counselor, speaker, YouTuber, and author of Learning Love. Build the best relationships of your life,

your life using Integrated Attachment Theory. And today she's here to share her expertise with you.

Welcome, Taiz. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here with you.

Yeah, me too. Because this is such an important conversation. You know, attachment styles can

often be this invisible force at work in people's relationships. And sometimes they don't even realize the power

that that can have. So I'm just thrilled to be exploring this topic with you on today's podcast.

And just to begin, because I'm always just so curious about the people that I speak with on the show,

let's talk a little bit about you

and your background, but like how you got interested in this specialty. What's the story there?

Yeah, I think there's sort of a twofold story there. I mean, the first part is I definitely

saw a lot of chaos growing up in my own childhood. So, saw a really intense divorce,

dragged out for a very long time, a lot of sort of fighting and arguing. And I think I was sort of put,

it was like the parentified child. I was definitely put in the middle a lot from a young age.

So I think like the downside is that that's difficult. But the upside of that was that I had like

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