Relationships - Attachment Theory

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Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who was emotionally unavailable?

What about someone who was emotionally exhausting?

People give up on life and relationships when every area of their life seems under attack (work, family, friends and romantic).

Self-doubt sets in and you think, “something must be wrong with me.”

Attachment theory describes how our early relationships with a primary caregiver, most commonly a parent, creates our expectations for how interactions with others as well as love relationships should be.

Our view of our self and others is molded by how well these caregivers were available and responsive to meet our physical and emotional needs. 

Our attachment systems are triggered by our various relationships.

How are we triggered?

Think about the availability of your primary caregiver.

• Were they neglectful, always there for you, or inconsistent?
• Who did you go to when you had a problem?
• Was there someone there you could really count on?

You can start to identify your own attachment style by getting to know the four patterns of attachment and learning how they commonly affect us in relating to others. All of these styles influence the way we behave and show up in our relationships and how we choose a romantic partner.

So, this begs the question, can one change their attachment style to a more secure way of relating? YES

Getting to know how you relate to others and why, creates a way forward. We tend to recreate unhealthy relationship patterns from our childhood into adulthood. As much as people may dislike it, the familiarity is comforting. You may even confuse the feelings of relationship chemistry with what is the familiarity of your early life experience.

You can challenge your insecurities by learning more about your attachment style, and changing the dynamics that has not worked for you thus far. You can build new styles of attachment for sustaining satisfying, balanced, loving relationships.

Join us September 2022 for a full month of weekly sessions and discovery.

Start date: 6 September 2022 at 19:00

End date: 27 September 2022 at 19:00

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