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Seeing Other People

Is My Gut Protecting Me or Is My Attachment Sabotaging Me?

Seeing Other People

Ilana Dunn

Social Sciences, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Science

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Thais Gibson, an attachment style expert and founder of The Personal Development School. Thais shares her background and how her chaotic childhood inspired her to delve into the world of relationships and attachment styles. She explains the four major attachment styles—secure, anxious, dismissive avoidant, and fearful avoidant—and their origins and effects on adult relationships. Thais also provides actionable advice on dating, communication, and building trust.

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

0:04.8

Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People.

0:10.1

Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories.

0:16.0

Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the dating

0:22.3

scene together. Today's guest is such an exciting one. We have Taise Gibson on the podcast.

0:28.3

She is an attachment style expert. Taise is the founder of the personal development school.

0:32.8

And she's been working in the field of relationships for over a decade. You guys, there's so much for us to

0:37.9

learn. Welcome to seeing other people. Thank you so much for having me. Excited to be here with you.

0:43.1

I am so excited. Before we dive head first, I would love to learn what brought you into this field

0:51.6

of relationships and attachment styles and personal development because I don't

0:57.1

think most people, you know, write on their fifth grade yearbook that like, oh, I want to be an

1:01.7

attachment style expert when I grow up. Fair. So I think I just grew up around chaos, honestly,

1:08.4

like relationship chaos is a big part of my childhood and saw lots

1:12.1

of like really intense fighting. And my parents had a divorce that went to like the superior court of

1:16.5

Canada and just dragged out for a long time. And it was just this very like dramatic kind of thing.

1:22.3

And I think it was a really sensitive kid. And I think I just from a very young age grew up wondering,

1:26.9

why I just have to be like

1:27.9

this? And isn't there a better way? And because there were so much chaos, because there would be

1:32.3

like, you know, huge arguments and big fights all the time, almost on what felt like a daily basis

1:37.0

as a child. I'm not sure if it was quite every day, but pretty close to it. And I think that I

1:42.0

also developed just a lot of hypervigilance. Like I was always sort of

1:44.7

waiting for the other shoe to drop and reading between the lines. And, you know, obviously that can

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