E258 - Healing a Fearful-Avoidant Attachment Style: 5 Ways To Work Through Disorganized Attachment Wounds

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Is it possible to work through and heal the wounds of a fearful-avoidant attachment style?

When you read into the fearful-avoidant attachment style you often get the hopeless message that it’s really difficult or even impossible to manage and overcome the symptoms.

Fairly, it won’t be easy, but if you have this attachment style and truly put the work in, I believe that long term improvements are possible and will make your relationship-life healthier.

To give you some approaches and a starting point, I brought together 5 ways to work through a fearful-avoidant attachment style.

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The 4 Attachment Styles Episode:

⁠⁠https://youtu.be/1S-YK065XLA?si=eph_m17ILcFl1qYV⁠⁠Polyvagal Theory Episode:

https://youtu.be/2iT8Msp8Vx0?si=wk-SaHl2jetGtYEu

A simple 3-Step Process To Actually Work On Yourself Episode:

https://youtu.be/mWr7CG-RlrI?si=xfgLSGA7TC3DV6eM

Shadow Work Episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPSEl9sOd9I

Attachment Styles Series:

Episode 1/8: Avoidant Attachment Style: 10 Signs: https://youtu.be/4vs3gDlmS18

Episode 2/8: Working Through Avoidant Attachment: https://youtu.be/FpNODQ7xYJg

Episode 3/8: Anxious Attachment: 10 Signs: https://youtu.be/rXscvYntSpY

Episode 4/8: Working Through Anxious Attachment: https://youtu.be/lbLG9432BkY

Episode 5/8: Fearful-Avoidant Attachment: 10 Signs: https://youtu.be/V5Nn_XOHFX8

Episode 6/8: Working Through Fearful Avoidant Attachment: https://youtu.be/leT0-kFOSR0

Episode 7/8: Secure Attachment: 10 Signs: https://youtu.be/YXdW4mwwogo

Episode 8/8: Becoming Securely Attached: https://youtu.be/wq6sRKNdUsE

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► Episode Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:26 Fe