Welcome back to the second part of my series on disorganized attachment. In the first article, I explored how children with anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment styles each have predictable ...
Valentine’s Day is designed to amplify romance. But how much of this is determined by attachment style? One study has shown ...
Simply put, a securely attached adult is comfortable with intimacy and readily works to repair relationship issues. Anxiously attached people often worry about their partner’s capacity to love them ...
Attachment theory reveals how early caregiver relationships shape adult responses to workplace feedback. Secure individuals see feedback as constructive, while anxious individuals become hypervigilant ...
Attachment theory is almost everywhere. In magazines and books, in the news, on social media and in our conversations with each other. Originally rooted in developmental psychology, the theory ...
You probably know that friendships play a big role in shaping who we are. But did you know that a lack of friendships during childhood can affect your attachment style? It’s a topic that often gets ...
The experiences we go through during childhood have a profound and lasting impact on how we connect emotionally as adults. From attachment theory to unresolved traumas, various studies and experts ...
"They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you." These are the words of poet Philip Larkin, penned in ...
A core principle of attachment theory emphasizes that children thrive when they have a "safe haven” to retreat to amidst life's external challenges. For a child with a strained family life, this could ...