How Your Childhood Impacts Dating, Relationships, and More with Dr. Robert Waldinger
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re tackling an often overlooked aspect of health: relationships. We sit down with Dr. Robert Waldinger, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, to explore how your childhood shapes your adult relationships. From romance to friendships to work, we break down how attachment styles affect every connection. We dive into the origins of attachment theory, the latest research, and practical tips to help you move towards a more secure style. Whether you’re dating, in a relationship, or just looking to improve your connections, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.
Our last episode with Dr. Robert Waldinger: The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Live Longer
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| 0:00.0 | So today we are going somewhere spicy, somewhere we've never gone before. |
| 0:07.0 | A whole new universe. |
| 0:08.0 | You know, we've covered so many topics, so many planets we've explored. Is there some place we haven't gone? |
| 0:15.0 | Really? Well Eddie I have to admit I got the idea for this episode from |
| 0:19.6 | Tik-Toc. I know. So much for the evidence-based scientific relation proven data. All right. |
| 0:29.4 | Eddie, I am not surprised. What did you learn on TikTok? |
| 0:33.2 | You should be thankful because TikTok is giving us the inspiration for so much of our |
| 0:37.5 | top tier content, okay? Eddie, it's what the people want. But basically I decided |
| 0:41.9 | that we should talk about attachment styles on this episode. |
| 0:45.0 | Attachment styles. |
| 0:47.0 | Like what are we talking about Velcro? |
| 0:50.0 | What's an attachment style? |
| 0:52.0 | No, Eddie, attachment styles. No. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, |
| 0:56.9 | attachment styles like securely attached, anxiously attached, avoided attachment styles. |
| 1:01.5 | Basically, attachment theory is this idea that how you |
| 1:05.2 | were raised when you were a baby impacts your relationships as an adult and it is all |
| 1:10.0 | the rage on dating Tik-Tok. It should be I guess. You know what's interesting when we |
| 1:15.9 | talk about lifestyle medicine which is kind of the scientific basis I'm not going |
| 1:20.0 | with Tik-Tok here. We've talked about, endlessly talk about food, we talk about other |
| 1:24.8 | aspects of exercise and sleep and stress, but we really have not spent that much time |
| 1:31.1 | with relationships, but I will point out that the very name |
| 1:33.8 | of this podcast is about a relationship we cry out yeah you're right food we need to talk |
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