The Love Brain: Recent Episodes
The Love Brain
A podcast dedicated to sharing healthy relationship guidance for committed couples with your host, Camilla Rees.
10 Ways to Have Good Communication in Your Relationships: https://thelovebrain.com/2019/09/30/have-good-communication/
My special guest, Taylor Hollingsworth and I dive into lessons we've learned over the years about healthy communication in a relationship. We talk about everything from the different communication styles to the best ways to start conversations about sensitive topics, including our own personal communication triumphs and failures.
Taylor's insight on healthy communication is both inspiring and motivating. We are all just normal people with our personal challenges, but we're all capable of creating beautiful relationships when we just keep practicing the art of healthy communication.
My special guest, Taylor Hollingsworth and I dive into lessons we've learned over the years about healthy communication in a relationship. We talk about everything from the different communication styles to the best ways to start conversations about sensitive topics, including our own personal communication triumphs and failures.
Taylor's insight on healthy communication is both inspiring and motivating. We are all just normal people with our personal challenges, but we're all capable of creating beautiful relationships when we just keep practicing the art of healthy communication.
Stay tuned for Part 2!
Looking for help dealing with anxiety and trust issues in a relationship? Today on we're talking all about the fearful avoidant attachment style and how to navigate this attachment style to a secure attachment.
Dealing with anxiety in a relationship can be really tricky, especially when our fears and reality were shaped by traumatic or negative relationships with caregivers. Unfortunately many of our trust issues and relationship anxiety stem from the attachment style we formed in childhood.
The 3 steps to help you move from a fearful avoidant attachment style to a secure attachment are:
- Look into therapy to start healing from your trauma
- Confront your relationship anxiety and trust issues by naming your fears out loud
- Do daily affirmations. Remind yourself out loud that you're worthy of love and deserve a trusting relationship.
Are you the type of person who, in your relationship, tends to shut down during an argument? Does emotional vulnerability freak you out? Do feel like you can only trust and rely on yourself to get your needs met?
These are all signs that you might lean toward a dismissive avoidant attachment style. Today we're talking about how to move from a dismissive avoidant attachment style to a more secure attachment in your relationship.
3 relationship tips we discuss: 1. Practice being vulnerable in small ways 2. Practice being curious about your emotions. Notice when you feel like shutting down, and instead, talk about it in your relationship 3. Practice self-awareness and learn what healthy boundaries look like. Is it really a healthy boundary, or are your dismissive avoidant attachment tendencies kicking in?
Do you have an anxious attachment style? The anxious attachment style is more common than we think, and it's totally possible to move from an anxious attachment style to a secure attachment in the same relationship!
In this episode, we’re talking about 3 things you can do (if you have an anxious attachment style) to feel a more secure attachment in your relationship.
7 Steps to Deal with Anxiety in a Relationship: thelovebrain.com/2019/11/06/7-steps-to-deal-with-anxiety-in-a-relationship/
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The Love Brain dives into the four attachment styles - anxious attachment, dismissive avoidant attachment, fearful avoidant attachment, and secure attachment.
An attachment style is the way we attach ourselves to a partner. Attachment styles explain the way we act in our relationships. Depending on our attachment style, we do different things to seek for comfort, love, and belonging.
The anxious attachment style comes from a belief that others are trustworthy, but you are unlovable. Anxious attachment makes you feel like you have to earn love and constantly seek reassurance from your partner.
The dismissive avoidant attachment style comes from a belief that you are lovable, but others are untrustworthy. Dismissive avoidant attachment makes you feel like can only rely on yourself and are skeptical of people who say they love you.
The fearful avoidant attachment style comes from a belief that others are untrustworthy and you’re unlovable. With a fearful avoidant attachment, you feel desperate for and simultaneously terrified of love and intimacy.
A secure attachment is the goal. Partners can create a secure attachment when they are accessible, responsive and engaged with each other and strive to be each other’s support system and safety net.
CONTACT You can reach me in The Love Brain's Instagram Direct Messages or email thelovebrain@gmail.com
LINKS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelovebrain_/ Blog: https://thelovebrain.com