Welcome to Therapist Uncensored, a podcast where therapists freely speak their minds about real life matters.

Welcome to Therapist Unsens. I'm Ann Kelly and I'm Sue Marriott and it's

really great to be sitting back with just the two of us because this is a format

where we go back and forth where we bring in amazing and awesome and incredible guests, but also sometimes we talk among ourselves to sort of pull apart the ideas of interpersonal neurobiology and attachment and

relationships and really try to delve into what makes for healthy connections with yourself and those close to you.

Right, and because we both have such a passion for this,

it's kind of the core of bringing us to this podcast.

It's kind of fun just to be back here in the studio with just you.

That's exactly right. So what we decided to do is we want to go back and do a real, here's the basics.

For those of you who are new to the podcast or who would like to be reminded,

we're going to really delve into one particular topic today in order to both refresh people's minds but also to go deeper

than what we have before this topic in particular is dismissive attachment.

So we've talked off and on in different podcasts about attachment and we've referenced

dismissive attachment secure attachment anxious preoccupied attachment and we've

even done one on disorganized but we've not done an entire padcast on the particular subtype.

So we decided that it might be really helpful just so that you can drop down and get really

well informed about a particular one.

So for those of you that relate more,

we've talked before again about the spectrum of attachment.

So this is a reminder for frequent listeners, but for new listeners the idea is very

simple that if you think of a spectrum and on the left side is blue on the middle is green and on the left side is blue, on the middle is green, and on the right is red, and the blue

corresponds to cooling off deactivation, zipping up, being super independent.

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