Episode 4: When Safety Fails - How Attachment Strategies Are Born

In Episode 4 of The Relational Safety Framework, Stephanie explores how repeated disruptions in relational safety crystallize into attachment strategies and Early Maladaptive Schemas. She explains how the nervous system adapts to unsafe environments, why different children develop different survival strategies in the same household, and how these protective adaptations persist into adulthood. This episode connects safety appraisal to attachment patterns and reframes attachment styles as intelligent nervous system strategies rather than personality traits.