Relationships

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.

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.

How to Communicate With an Avoidant Partner

Avoidant attachment can cause a breakdown in communication. These tips can help strengthen the bond in your relationship with an avoidant partner.

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.

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 […]

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.

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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Attachment-Based Goals for Relationships That Last

Inspired to set great New Year's resolutions? Discover tips for setting goals for relationships based on your attachment style.

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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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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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The Superpowers of Securely Attached Adults

The social skills of securely attached adults are their personal superpowers and are usually emotionally balanced, calm, and comfortable with intimacy.

The Superpowers of Fearful Avoidant Attachment

In order to reinforce your strengths, you may first need help identifying them.

The Superpowers of Dismissive Avoidant Attachment

Being aware of the negative traits of dismissive avoidant attachment is important. However, you can derive benefits from focusing on the positive aspects.

The Superpowers of Anxious Preoccupied Attachment

Practicing positive psychology can help you to build upon your strengths, increase your self-esteem, and improve your relationships.

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An Attachment Bond isn't in Every Relationship. Here’s Why.

Not every close relationship we form is an attachment relationship...and not everyone we love is an attachment figure.

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How to Heal Disorganized Attachment: Self-Regulation Tips

Self-regulation means that you manage your emotions and actions in regard to what you want in the long-run. Basically, it means think before you act. This means understanding what triggers you in your relationships.

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Avoidant Attachment Triggers and Tips for Healthy Self Regulation

Understanding how to self regulate your emotions is an essential skill. However, having avoidant attachment may impact your ability to do so.

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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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Your Attachment Style Influences Your Sex Life [and even Casual Sex]

Attachment styles play a role in the way we approach and experience sex.

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Here's What We Know About Attachment Styles in the Workplace

Attachment styles can affect the way we perform in the workplace - mainly because our work environments include social dynamics.

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Secure Attachment - from Childhood to Adult Relationships

People who have developed this type of attachment are self-content, easy to connect with and are able to express their feelings.

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Attachment Styles & Their Role in Relationships

Research has identified four main attachment styles: anxious / preoccupied, dismissive / avoidant, disorganized and secure.

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Avoidant Attachment Style: Causes & Symptoms

Parents who are strict, emotionally unavailable and expect their child to be independent usually raise a child with avoidant attachment.

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Disorganized Attachment: Causes & Symptoms

In adulthood, people with this attachment style are extremely inconsistent in their behavior and have a hard time trusting others.

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Anxious Attachment: Causes & Symptoms

Low self-esteem, strong fear of rejection or abandonment, and clinginess in relationships are common signs of this attachment style.

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