You're listening to On attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience

relationships and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome

insecurity and build healthy thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment. It's been a little while since the last

episode which I really apologize for it was not my intention to have almost a month off

but as some of you would know from Instagram if you follow me there or you might just have

guessed. I had a baby two and a half weeks ago which was a little bit earlier than

expected. I had originally planned to have lots of

podcast episodes planned and recorded and scheduled and ready to go so that they

would keep rolling on when I took some time off to have a baby.

But I think I overestimated how much capacity I would have in those final weeks of pregnancy.

And that combined with the fact that our little boy came a couple of weeks earlier than expected meant that I didn't have any of those things that I had hoped to.

So we've had a little bit of a break the past few weeks.

Everything is going well, Ollie, our little boy is just gorgeous and we've been really

really loving soaking up the newborn bubble which has been so very sweet and exhausting

and full-on and perfectly lovely so thank you for your patience

in this little hiatus that I've had the past month or so.

But I'm really glad to be back today

to offer some lessons in self-trust control and surrender which are themes that I've

touched on before on the show but really have been on my mind in this whole experience of pregnancy, birth and the first

couple of weeks of motherhood. And so while this isn't an episode about those things,

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