Psychology

Giving Up Ghosting: How to Avoid Ghosting Others

In the age of technology, ghosting is becoming more frequent. But it is a painful and confusing experience for anyone on the receiving end. Find out how to avoid ghosting others.

Tips for Healthy Emotion Regulation During Breakups

Our ability to healthily regulate emotions during breakups is affected by our attachment styles. But there are steps you can take to cope better during this difficult time.

Emotional Intelligence & Attachment

Emotional intelligence is a useful tool for successfully navigating relationships. Discover how your attachment style impacts emotional intelligence.

Attracting a Partner With a Secure Attachment Style

Attracting a secure partner, even if you have an insecure attachment style, is entirely possible. It just helps to know the signs of secure attachment and understanding how to work towards more secure attachment in your own life first.

Setting Limits: Boundaries and Attachment Styles

Our ability to understand and implement boundaries is affected by our attachment styles. This article covers four key steps to managing boundaries.

Forming a Secure Attachment to Your Siblings

Insecure attachment can affect the bond we form with our siblings. But it's possible to form a secure sibling attachment at any stage of life - discover how!

Attachment and Music: What Your Favorite Lyrics Say About Your Attachment Style

Our favorite song lyrics have an impact on our ability to feel more secure in relationships. Find out how to make music and lyrics tools for processing attachment insecurity.

How to Be a Secure Base for Your Loved One

Acting as a secure base for a loved one with an insecure attachment style can help them feel less anxious in general, and also more secure in your presence - strengthening the bond in your relationship. 

Earned Secure Attachment: Transforming Your Insecure Attachment Style

An insecure attachment style isn't necessarily a life sentence. Find out how to achieve earned secure attachment.

The Love Hormone: Oxytocin and Attachment

Our levels of oxytocin (the love hormone) are linked to our attachment styles. Find out how!

Transgenerational Trauma: The Cycles of Insecure Attachment

Insecure attachment can be passed on through our genes. Discover how transgenerational trauma affects our relationships and self perceptions.

Adoption and Attachment: Forming a Secure Bond With Your Adopted Child

Adoption gives children a second chance. Find out how adoption impacts attachment and what adoptive caregivers can do to help their child forge a secure bond.

Attachment Styles and Stress Responses

Stressful situations are unavoidable. But how we respond to it can be controlled. Learn about how your attachment style affects your stress responses!

The Scare Factor: How Your Attachment Style Influences Your Fears

Are you the type of person that likes to watch a horror movie on your own, enjoying the feeling of fear that tugs at your gut? Did you spend your childhood telling ghost stories or daring your friends to knock at the door of the local “haunted” house? If you did, you’re most certainly not […]

6 Signs Your Attachment Style Is Affecting Your Peace of Mind

From time to time, you may find that you struggle more than usual to achieve balance and peace of mind in your day-to-day life. Perhaps your partner is out of town for a few days, and you feel anxious in their absence. Or maybe you’ve decided to move in together, but you find yourself overwhelmed […]

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Attachment

COVID-19 has influenced our lives in multiple ways. Discover how the pandemic has affected people with the different attachment styles.

Understanding Addiction Through Attachment Theory

Addiction affects and is affected by our relationships. Attachment theory helps us understand the roots and symptoms of addictions.

Autism and Attachment Theory: Can Autism Influence Attachment and How?

Discover the relationship between attachment theory and autism! Find out how attachment styles can impact the symptoms of autism.

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Attachment Theory and Eating Disorders

Discover the link between attachment theory and eating disorders. Learn how insecure attachment styles might contribute to eating disorders.

Tips for Managing ADHD for Insecure Attachers

Discover a number of powerful strategies to manage ADHD symptoms efficiently. Our tips in this blog post are designed specifically for people with insecure attachment.

What Is ADHD? How Does It Relate to Attachment?

Attachment disorders and ADHD are strongly linked. Discover how insecure attachment style has the potential to worsen ADHD symptoms.

6 Myths About Non-Monogamous Relationships

Despite the rise in popularity, ENM relationships are still stigmatized and widely misunderstood. Read our article to discover more!

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Be Kind to Yourself: Attachment & Self-Compassion

Discover how the capacity to be kind to yourself relates to attachment, and how it can influence your well-being and quality of life.

Affect Regulation and Child Development

Learn why affect regulation is an essential part of children's emotional development and how it relates to attachment.

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Valentine's Day Anxiety: Don't Let Love Get You Down

This year, don't let expectations, comparisons, and self-doubt get you down. Follow these simple tips to prevent getting stressed out, worried, or lonely.

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Be Kind to One Another: Attachment, Compassion, & Altruism

Discover how attachment styles might impact people's ability to be kind to one another and engage in altruistic behavior.

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Give Thanks & Thrive: 25 Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

To inspire and encourage you to give thanks more often, we share 25 benefits that gratitude can bring into your life.

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10 Tips for Managing Interpersonal Conflicts During the Holidays

Discover powerful strategies to manage and resolve interpersonal conflicts like a secure attacher.

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Holiday Socializing Tips that Work for Your Attachment Style

These tips are aimed at helping insecure attachers prevent and better manage anxiety and stress caused by socializing during the holidays.

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How to Plan Ahead to Avoid Holiday Stressors

Don't let insecure attachment ruin your holidays! Use these simple tips to plan ahead and prevent and better manage holiday stressors.

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The Power of Forgiveness: 6 Tips on How to Let Go of the Past

Six science-based tips on how to let go of the past, forgive, and free yourself from emotional baggage.

Jealousy in Relationships: Do Attachment Styles Matter?

We explore how attachment styles are related to the experience and expression of jealousy in relationships.

Can Attachment Styles Predict Loneliness? The Role of Emotional Needs

Exploring the link between attachment styles, emotional needs, and the two types of loneliness - emotional and social.

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Self Regulation Strategies for Anxious Attachment Triggers

Understanding how to self regulate our emotions and actions is an essential skill to develop. If you are working towards “earned secure attachment”, think of this as a milestone on that path.

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How to Get Over Your Ex: 7 Tips for Personal Growth After a Breakup

Breakups are not an easy or pleasant part of our journeys. And yet, it’s exactly those tough moments in our lives that help us grow and learn.

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Heartbroken? 6 Tips to Cope with a Breakup [+ 15 Self-Help Resources]

We offer 6 ways to change your mindset to get over your heartbreak once and for all.

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10 Attachment Theory Mistakes to Avoid

The most common traps you might fall into when you first discover attachment theory.

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5 Practical Ways to Manage Your Anger & Negative Feelings

We will discuss a few aspects of managing anger and negative emotions.

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