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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

UFYB 110: Dating, Perfectionism & Anxious Attachment

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week, I’m taking a topic I’ve discussed on the podcast before a step further. Attachment theory is something you might believe in, or you might not, but I think it’s useful to discuss it to see how it’s affecting your relationships, especially in terms of your dating life.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/110

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

0:13.8

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

0:24.7

Tara Lowenthal.

0:25.7

Hello, my chickens.

0:33.0

How are you all?

0:34.2

It's everybody ready for the holiday season of recording this right before Thanksgiving.

0:40.3

I don't know whether it's because it's a cupping season or what?

0:44.7

This is very cold New York, but I feel like I have been doing a ton of coaching on dating

0:51.1

recently, and I've been doing some of this work myself and really doing a lot of reading

0:55.3

and self coaching about it.

0:57.2

And so today I wanted to get deeper dive into something that I've addressed briefly

1:01.7

in a previous episode.

1:03.2

So on the episode about kind of personality tests, I talked also about attachment theory.

1:10.4

And I'm going to dig more into attachment theory in this podcast today.

1:14.4

And I always like to preface this by saying, is all just thoughts, right?

1:18.2

Like some people believe in attachment theory.

1:19.9

Some people maybe don't.

1:21.4

I think that some of the patterns that attachment theory describes are brain patterns that I recognize

1:27.9

in myself and other people.

1:29.9

And in this episode, I kind of want to teach you how I think about those patterns and where

1:35.5

I think they're the kind of traditional view of them is useful.

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