Hi, I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

relational attachments. Why are you attached? Should you be? And what is most healthy? So I continue

to interest myself with the concept of attachments, how and why we attach to anything. In this episode,

I'm focusing specifically on relational attachments again. The concept is that in our childhood,

we learned how to best attach to our primary caregivers and others. And as no parent or caregiver or person is perfect, we have to hypothesize or we do that nobody

learns how to attach in perfect health.

We adapt and we cope.

It may serve us at one point in life, but generally that same way that we formed as a youngster may not serve us later.

And unless we've served us as well later, and unless you've given specific attention and done

the work to understand yourself, chances are high, if not 100%, that you have some attachment

styles and habits that are not serving your relationships best today.

So I start off questioning how attached we should even be, if at all,

and looking first at how we attach to ourselves.

My expert guest is Jessica Baum, B-A-U-M.

Jessica is a renowned psychotherapist who is specialized in trauma,

attachment theory, and interpersonal neurobiology. Jessica feels that connection to ourselves and

others is at the heart of healing, and she uses a range of modalities to help individuals and couples find health and wholeness.

She's founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach. It's a private group practice,

and she leads a global coaching company offering support to clients worldwide. Jessica previously

authored a book, a best-selling book, An, anxiously attached, is what that was called.

And it established her as a trusted voice in the healing of attachment wounds and building secure, fulfilling relationships.

Her new book is called Safe, an attachment-informed guide to building more secure relationships, which was the

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