Attachment styles

What is your attachment style? On today's show we will describe the different relating/attachment styles: Secure, Anxious/ambivalent, Avoidant and Disorganized; and how there's a spectrum, from minor/mild to extreme/rigid traits of each style.

By knowing the different attachment styles we can better understand ourselves and others. Knowing a partner's relational style helps us to really 'get' them and better meet their needs. 

With this knowledge we also can learn the origin of our limiting beliefs; and with this awareness help us to heal.

We will also discuss being 'triggered', what this is exactly; how our unresolved childhood patterns can create reactions in the present moment which are not an expression of our authentic selves. 

Mirror neurons and how they help to explain why we grow up to repeat what we witnessed our parents doing. 

We will touch on practical ways to resolve these unhealthy patterns, such as somatic therapy, so that we can have fulfilling relationships and be our real selves. 

Recommendations: 

"Why Can't I Change? How to Conquer Your Self-destructive Patterns" by Dr. Shirley Impellizzeri

"Mirroring People" by Marco Iacoboni

Somatic Experience Therapy: www.traumahealing.com/somatic-experiencing

Del: www.youhavethepowerwithin.com

Allison: www.artastrohealing.com