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Why Your Relationships Feel So Hard (Attachment Styles Explained)
Episode 103 • 18th December 2025 • Campus Chronicles • Casa De Confidence Productions
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Ever wondered why you keep ending up in the same relationship patterns, even when you promise yourself you won’t?

Why you overthink texts, chase emotionally unavailable people, shut down when things get serious, or feel anxious when someone pulls away?

In this episode of Campus Chronicles, Brooke sits down with Bev Mitelman, founder of Securely Loved and a relationship and attachment trauma specialist, to break down attachment styles in a way that actually makes sense for students.

This is not pop psychology.

This is not social media buzzwords.

This is real, grounded understanding of how your childhood experiences shape the way you connect with people today.

Bev explains the four attachment styles, how your nervous system plays a role in your reactions, and why so many students feel confused, overwhelmed or stuck in unhealthy relationship cycles. Most importantly, she reminds us that attachment styles are learned patterns, and learned patterns can be changed.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What attachment styles actually are (and what they are not)

• Why attachment has nothing to do with being “broken”

• The difference between anxious, avoidant and secure attachment

• Why anxious and avoidant people often end up together

• How childhood experiences quietly shape adult relationships

• The role your nervous system plays in emotional reactions

• Why awareness is the first step toward healthier relationships

• How to start rewiring patterns that no longer serve you

• Three powerful pieces of advice Bev gives to university students

This conversation is eye opening, validating and empowering. If you have ever thought, “Why am I like this?” in relationships, this episode will help you understand yourself with more compassion and clarity.

About Bev:

Bev Mitelman, M.A. is the Founder of Securely Loved and a certified relationship and attachment trauma practitioner. With over 25 years of experience, Bev works with individuals, couples and families to rebuild healthy self esteem, emotional safety and secure attachment. She is also a certified menopause specialist and former executive leader, university lecturer and published author.

Explore more:

Website: https://securelyloved.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SecurelyLoved

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Today we're here with Bev Middleman who I

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am personally excited to talk about.

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Bev, thank you for being here.

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Thank you.

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I'm excited to be here

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with you and your audience.

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Well, before we begin to get into, cause

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I know this is a very nuanced, very big

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topic, give us the context into what you

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do and then our viewers are gonna know

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why I am so excited.

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(Bev Laughs) So I work with attachment styles.

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I'm a relationship and

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attachment trauma practitioner.

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So my job is to work with individuals and

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couples, help them identify their

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attachment style and how that may or may

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not be impacting the relationships in

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their life with their romantic partners,

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their friends, their colleagues, family

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members and also the relationship to

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themselves and to help them work through

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that so they can move towards what we

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call secure attachment.

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And I'm sure we're gonna get into that.

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Of course we will.

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Thank you for pointing out too that this

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is so important for the relationship to

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ourselves because even if we're not in an

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intimate partnership, it's easy to write

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this topic off but it

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is so crucial to know.

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So anyone that's been listening to the

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podcast may or may not have collected

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that this is my weak spot.

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So there's so much I wanna ask you but I

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wanna dive in with this first.

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What is it that people most misunderstand

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about attachment styles?

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There's a couple of things.

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So first of all, what's so fascinating is

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that everyone has an attachment style.

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So everyone in the world has an

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attachment style which means it's simply

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a way and a set of patterns and behaviors

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for how we form emotional

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bonds with other people.

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identify four specific styles.

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Now rarely do people fit like right in

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one little box but they

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sort of lean in a direction.

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And the way in which we form emotional

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bonds with other people is directly

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correlated to the type

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of childhood that we had.

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So what we saw, felt, experienced,

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learned as a child becomes a template for

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how it is we grow up and

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interact with the world, right?

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It becomes our lens.

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Yeah, so I hear some people sometimes

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conflating attachment styles with mental

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illness or personality disorders like

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narcissism, not the same thing at all.

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No, no, it's certainly not.

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If you have come into contact with a true

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narcissist diagnosably, you'll know.

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Oh, you'll know.

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You'll know.

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Well said.

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Yeah, and the other thing that I wanna

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point out is that attachment styles are

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learned behavior, right?

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So with like anything else in our world,

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in our body, in our mind, what we learn,

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we can unlearn and relearn.

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So even if you have a set of patterns

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that's falling in one direction, let's

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say you're more on the avoidance side,

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you absolutely can learn to undo some of

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that thought pattern and some of that

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behavior and to operate in

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a much more secure fashion.

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And that is the work that I do.

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I help people move in that direction.

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Curiously, what role does body and

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somatics play in the unlearning process?

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Such a great question.

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You might be the first one

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who's ever asked me that.

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I'm huge on somatics,

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it's a passion for me.

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So when we're gonna talk about the two

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different broad categories, secure

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attachment and insecure attachment,

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there's a whole bunch of subsets of

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categories and insecure attachment.

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their nervous system

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is dysregulated, right?

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of behavior that people are trying to use

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to regulate their nervous

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system and find a sense of safety.

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So when we talk about doing the work

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towards secure attachment, somatics is

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very important when we're talking about

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nervous system regulation.

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So that's a great, great question.

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So for someone that's curious, wants to

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explore, what's my attachment style?

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They want to wade into these waters.

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What's the first thing you

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would suggest someone do?

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So, you know, awareness

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is always the first point.

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There's a little quiz on my website

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people can take, it's a

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free quiz at securelyloved.com.

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you a general sense.

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these categories are now and oftentimes

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people go, oh yeah, that sounds like me.

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realization, maybe some familiarity.

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Yeah, yeah, or sometimes people go, oh,

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that sounds like my boyfriend, or that

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sounds like my ex or whatever.

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So I'll give sort of a broad view.

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And I think a lot of people will be able

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to self identify where they might sit.

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So we have two broad categories.

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start with the two main categories where

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we have secure attachment

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and insecure attachment.

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that we give to individuals that feel

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comfortable being independent and in

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connection and

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closeness with others, right?

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These are generally people who grew up in

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homes where there was a fair degree of

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emotional attunement from their

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caregivers,

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predictability, warmth, caring.

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about perfect parenting, right?

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That doesn't exist,

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but the child felt safe.

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They felt safe to express themselves.

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They felt safe that their caregiver would

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respond in a calm and respectful way.

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and they learned about being authentic.

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And they grew up understanding that life

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is all about connections,

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right?

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They felt safe in that.

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And so these are the individuals that go

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on to often seek out

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long-term partnerships.

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They do very well in

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long-term partnerships.

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They're pretty good with boundaries.

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They understand respectful communication.

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folks who are like volatile.

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it's hard to get an exact number, but

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it's probably in between 40 and 50% of

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the population is secure.

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Yeah.

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That's a bigger number than I suspected.

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That's what people always say.

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It's hard to get, because this is

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self-reported, right?

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So it's hard to get the number, but in

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between 40 and 50% is

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where the estimate lies today.

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That means that the other 50 to 60%, the

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bigger cohort of people when they grow up

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into adults have formed an

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insecure attachment style.

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emotional bonds with other people.

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realm, they're subcategories.

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preoccupied or the anxious attacher.

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because it's like a continuum, right?

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the avoidant attacher or

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the dismissive avoidance.

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group of people who actually have both

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avoidance and anxious.

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they are known as disorganized attachers

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because they have like a little bit of

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both or fearful avoidance,

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those two different names.

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caregiving that we

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received when we were younger.

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preoccupied would have experienced very

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unpredictable love

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when they were younger.

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These are the folks that often get sort

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of called out on social media and in

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memes as being needy in relationships,

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the chasers, right?

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They're the ones who are constantly

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seeking closeness from their partners

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because they don't have

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the ability to self-soothe.

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emotionally volatile and they're heavily

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reliant on their partners and their

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friends to help them

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soothe their nervous system.

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a parent who was emotionally unavailable

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or someone, maybe a parent who was

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alcoholic, unpredictable.

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a little bit of love,

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but not consistently.

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coaster of emotions of like chasing after

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love that's a lot of times not available.

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So I'll pause here and say, do you know

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anyone in your circle of friends who

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chases after unavailable partners?

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Of course.

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but it's obvious this person can't give

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you what it is that you

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need and desire and want.

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doesn't have a clear explanation

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because the patterns that I'm describing

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are in our subconscious mind.

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but not at a conscious level.

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So if you ask someone, why are you

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wasting your time running after this guy

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who's clearly emotionally unavailable,

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giving you breadcrumbs, they're likely

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not going to understand

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what's driving their behavior.

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It just feels necessary.

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They're just like, I'm

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just so attracted to him.

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I know there's something about him.

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The dynamic is recreating what you know

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to be familiar from your childhood, where

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you were chasing after

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the love of your caregiver.

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It might've been your father,

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it might've been your mother.

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the next minute they're not.

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try harder, I can make them love me.

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young age to develop

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people pleasing tendencies.

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because they're so focused on pleasing

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the other person all under the guise of,

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I'll be perfect, I'll be

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perfect, don't leave me.

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and they're also over feelers.

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They tend to feel their emotions in a

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really, really heightened sense, lots of

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volatility in that group.

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Sounds like some of your friends, we all

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have friends like

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this in our peer groups.

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Oh, I'll just call myself out.

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I would lean towards that.

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(Laughs) I'm not too bold to say it.

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You know, it's okay.

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Like again, these are just patterns that

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we absorbed from our childhood.

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you become aware of this and that you're

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chasing after love because that's what's

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familiar to you and you realize, like the

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interesting thing is

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once you start to heal,

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the people that you would have once found

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extremely attractive,

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they're no longer attracted to you.

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that will make you laugh.

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One of my closest friends is a

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professional somatic practitioner.

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recruiter because I like to recruit in a

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friendship sense, not

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in a romantic sense.

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I don't do that as much romantically

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actually, but in a friendship sense, she

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likes to call me the safety recruiter.

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I like to know that

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people are on my side.

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I like to recruit their support, their

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love and their safety.

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"You're recruiting again."

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So do you feel best when you're

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surrounded by lots of people?

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Now, if something happens, something

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emotional happened, I don't know, you get

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a phone call from

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someone that really upsets you.

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Is your tendency to sort of take a walk

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and think about it or to pick up the

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phone and call multiple friends and air

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it out over the course of the

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next six hours?

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My tendency is always to pick up the

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phone and call a bunch of people.

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So I knew what you were going to say.

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So human behavior is so fascinating

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because it's predictive, right?

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people have based on

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what they've learned.

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work on specifically teaching skills so

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that you could learn how to rely more on

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yourself on self-soothing.

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Because there is a reason that you reach

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out to that many people to

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sort of help you process.

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Because essentially what you're trying to

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do is you're trying to downgrade or

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regulate your nervous system, which has

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been jolted by that event.

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Yeah, yeah, it's very, very common.

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Like 25% of the population has this

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particular attachment

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style, super common.

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also about 25% of the population has

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this, is the avoidance.

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really luck, but they often find each

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other in romantic relationships.

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This is where we get the push-pull thing.

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So the avoidant typically grew up in a

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home where there was emotional neglect or

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they were really overburdened, let's say

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by a mother that was

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very controlling or whatnot.

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closeness was not safe.

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safest when I'm

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alone, I can trust myself.

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I don't really trust others.

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being hyper independent.

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It's quite difficult for them to trust

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others and to move into

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long-term relationships.

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short-term casual

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relationships because vulnerability,

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intimacy is very scary for them.

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right?

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craves and desires that closeness for the

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avoidant, that closeness actually makes

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them feel unsafe and so

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they push it away, right?

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So these two end up dating very often and

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that's why we have so many of these memes

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on the internet that talk about the one

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that's chasing and the

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one that's running away.

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all the time if a couple is in conflict.

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Usually there's one partner that's like,

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"We need to talk about it now.

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I can't go to sleep upset."

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We need to like, they absolutely have to

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resolve it to be able to calm down.

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like, "I need a day to myself.

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I just need to think about things.

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I need to process."

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often see on the internet these tropes

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and these memes of the girl being anxious

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and the guy being avoidant,

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which of course can happen.

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But attachment styles are not gendered,

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which means that we have plenty of women

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who fall into the category of avoidant

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and plenty of men who fall into the

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category of anxious.

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up far more avoidant.

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you know, I've lived through and I'm

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dating someone now who is

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much more on the anxious scale.

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How fascinating.

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that are sort of the mix.

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the fearful avoidant or the disorganized.

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These people came out of homes often

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where there was just a

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high degree of chaos.

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template in their mind whereby they

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really very much wanted the closeness

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like the anxious, et cetera, but they

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feared it because

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that also came with pain.

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they were really yearning for the love of

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a parent, but the

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parent was also harming them.

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So the child becomes confused in their

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psyche, disorganized with how to create

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emotional bonds with people because they

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desire the closeness as all people do.

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We all want to form connections, but

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they're deeply afraid of it because in

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their mind that comes with pain.

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wanting to put ourselves through pain.

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is the fearful avoidance.

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They're the least understood.

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They carry around deep wounds of betrayal

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and they're often, it's an interesting

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group because oftentimes they've

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developed a set of skills that are very,

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very helpful for them because they're

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trying to keep themselves safe.

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So you'll find that fearful avoidance,

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for example, are hypervigilant.

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So if you've ever been around someone

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who's hypervigilant, walks into the room

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and scans the room right away, is trying

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to feel everyone's emotionality and it's

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because they're trying to

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pick up on where's the danger,

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right?

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Can I trust the group

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of people that I'm with?

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And because they've just, they've

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experienced such high degrees of betrayal

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that they don't trust at all.

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Really difficult to sort

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of penetrate that shell.

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They're good people.

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Like that's the thing is is that they've

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just been traumatized

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in childhood, right?

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So it's more difficult to form a healthy

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relationship with them if they're unaware

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of their patterning.

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And the key word that you're using is

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aware because I think it's so important

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to know that awareness to your point is

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the first step of really starting to make

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some of these changes that are gonna move

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you into having more satisfying

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fulfilling partnerships.

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Yes.

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Yeah, and all of this really starts from

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first really understanding yourself.

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So what are the wounds

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that you're carrying, right?

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What are your triggers?

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What are the things that you really need

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to feel content and satiated?

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Like what are your personality needs?

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What's really important

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to you in relationships?

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With the man that I'm dating now, I

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remember on one of our first dates, I sat

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down with him and I said, what's really

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important to me is

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trust, loyalty and honesty.

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So I can give that to you, but I need

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that back in spades.

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Which means that if I get a sense that

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you're being

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dishonest with me, we're done.

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That's beautiful to have that degree of

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self-awareness that we

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should all be working towards.

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Yeah, and that's where I think that

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that's part of the, the work that we do

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because once you understand your own mind

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and what you need to feel safe, then you

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learn how to communicate that to someone

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else clearly, right?

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We stop expecting people

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to read our minds, right?

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And you can sort of set these parameters

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for relationship when we talk about a

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healthy relationship.

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We talk about, okay,

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tell me what you need.

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I'm gonna tell you what I need.

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And for some people that's just so hard

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because they really don't know.

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Right.

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So for any listener, cause this is my

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signature question, I'm

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gonna adapt it a little for you.

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So I wanna keep your

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advice within this realm.

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So if you were gonna give three pieces of

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advice to university-age students about

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attachment style, what are

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those three pieces of advice?

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Okay, let me think about

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this for a moment, okay?

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I know, it's a good juicy question.

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Yeah, it really is, hold on.

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And I'm taking notes because it's a good,

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I wanna, a good question

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deserves a good response.

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Well, thank you.

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And I think too, I'm just so excited on

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the personal front and the

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professional front to have you.

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It's been a pleasure.

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And I know we discussed before we

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started, we're gonna have

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you back for a deeper dive.

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So today is just our overview listeners.

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Don't worry, she'll be back.

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Okay, I think I have

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a pretty good answer.

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So what's interesting about the younger

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folk when they start dating, right?

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So we're talking about like students who

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are like 20 to 25 in that age group.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah,

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oftentimes they are very unaware of how

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their childhood has impacted them, mostly

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because they can still very much be

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integrated to their home of origin.

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So when you get

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older, see, I'm almost 50.

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So I've been out of my

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home of origin for 30 years.

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So when you get distance and you get a

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little older and you have

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some more life experiences,

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it's easier to build perspective and to

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see things from a different lens.

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But someone, for example, who's attending

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university and still living at home and

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still in that milieu, it might be a

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little bit more challenging,

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but all that more important.

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So I do think, number one, the most

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important thing to do is

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to learn about yourself.

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So your subconscious mind is absolutely

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driving the show here.

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Your subconscious mind, the patterns,

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like a computer program, you've been

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programmed over those 20 years, and now

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your thought patterns, your emotions, and

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your behavior is being guided by a set of

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rules that you've

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inherited from other people.

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We all like to think we have free agency.

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You're running on autopilot through all

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of these sort of rules

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that you've learned, right?

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Rules of engagement.

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So learn about yourself.

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Why do you do certain things?

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Why do you enjoy being around people all

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the time or not enjoy

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being around people?

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Why are there certain situations that

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make you anxious and yet other situations

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you really desire and crave?

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What really feeds your soul, right?

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Where are your passions?

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And the university time period is the

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best time to explore all of this, right?

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It is.

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On so many levels, academically and with

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friends and sexually and like, it's your

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time to explore and find yourself.

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So, you know, do a dive into your mind as

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well, trying to understand

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what are my thought patterns.

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And that's simple as right before you

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make a decision, ask yourself,

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what am I thinking right now?

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Bring your thoughts to

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your conscious awareness.

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I'm about to say no to go to a party,

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but I really do wanna go.

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So why am I gonna say no?

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What am I thinking?

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Oh, okay, I'm thinking that the group

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isn't gonna like me.

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So that's why I'm not going.

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This is the stuff that you have to

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uncover, the reasonings, right?

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So learn about yourself.

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Then I would say, take the steps either,

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you know, through reading or watching

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videos or working with a counselor to

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rewire some of this conditioning that is

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no longer serving you.

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So you might still be repeating behaviors

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from your childhood that you once needed

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in order to feel safe and protect

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yourself that you no longer need, but

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you're still on autopilot and you're

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repeating these things.

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So call yourself out, be honest with

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yourself and do the work

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to, and we can do this.

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We can reprogram, you know, these

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patterns in our minds so that you start

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adjusting your behavior into a way that's

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healthier and more conducive to healthy

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relationships with

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yourself and with others.

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And the third thing is, I think the most

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important is I would really advise and

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highly encourage people to find their

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authenticity and to

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live your authenticity.

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Too many times we are

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wearing masks in society, right?

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We are playing a role that we think

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others want us to play.

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Half the university students will

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probably say they don't even want to be

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studying what they're studying, but their

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parents wanted them to do it.

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And so they're doing it to

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please other people, right?

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People pleasing, we talked about this.

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Find your authenticity, figure out what

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actually makes me happy, what actually

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sparks me and through all

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different areas of life, right?

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So that might be your career, it might be

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the types of friends that you want to

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surround yourself with.

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It might be the type of romantic partner

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you want or the type of relationship that

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you may or may not want because, you

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know, in today's day and age, you can

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define your relationship in so many

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different ways, right?

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It's so find truly your authenticity and

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what makes you happy.

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And I promise you when you're authentic,

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you will naturally find your tribe, the

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people who naturally vibe with you, who

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have the same alignment, but that and

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that will be the biggest

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gift to find your people.

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Oh my goodness.

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I love all three of those.

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I can't pick a favorite though, because

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they're also vitally important.

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If I could encourage the listeners to do

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anything, it would probably be to listen

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to Bev because that was extraordinary.

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And you have not

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disappointed even whatsoever.

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You have exceeded my expectations by a

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million and I cannot

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wait to have you back.

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But if somebody wants to learn, they want

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to follow your social media and engage

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with your content, where do they go?

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Oh, thank you for that.

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So our website, securelyloved.com, we're

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actually a group of practitioners.

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So it's me and a group of practitioners

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who are working

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specifically with attachment trauma.

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So you can take the free quiz on our

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website if you want to get a sense of

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where you fall on that scale.

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You could also book a free 20-minute

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consult with me or with any of the

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practitioners that's securely loved.

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We are also on social media.

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My two sons who are in university at this

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point in time, they've helped me learn

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social media and so we are on

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Instagram at securely_loved.

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I'm just building a new YouTube channel

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too because I'm trying to get some of

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this information out there.

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So on YouTube, we're at securelyloved.

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Yeah, and I would love to interact with

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people if you have questions or comments,

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either through the

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website or YouTube or Instagram.

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I answer everything that comes my way.

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Well, I want to say a huge thank you for

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sharing your wisdom, your knowledge, your

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expertise for being so open about a topic

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that can be nuanced and it can be

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difficult and filled with

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misinformation and taboo.

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So thank you so much

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for the demystification.

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We are so grateful.

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Thank you.

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Yes, and thank you so much to everyone

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for joining us on another episode of the

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So if today's episode gave you life,

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