Understanding attachment styles and how you show up in adult relationships with Kristin Mathes, LCSW

Are you someone who feels anxious in relationships preoccupied with how your partner feels about you? Or perhaps have difficulty with trust, opening up emotionally, or really committing in relationships. Or maybe you're in a relationship with someone who identifies as such. Regardless, understanding how we show up in adult intimate relationships has a lot to do with understanding our attachment style. This week one of our hosts, Kristin Mathes discussed the 4 main attachment styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious, and Anxious/ Avoidant and how our relationships with our primary caregivers early in life have everything to do with how we show up in adult partnership. Understanding our own attachment style and that of our partner can help us understand our emotional needs, help resolve conflict, and work towards developing deeper trust, intimacy, and security in relationships. In this episode we discuss: Kristin teaches the basics of the 4 attachment styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious, Anxious/Avoidant. She helps us understand the basis of how attachment is formed in our earliest years of development with our primary caregivers. Kristin offers examples of how attachment styles lend to conflict, dissatisfaction, games of cat- mouse, or a push/ pull dynamic with your partner. There is hope! Kristin discusses key factors in how we can use this knowledge to work toward creating trust, intimacy, security, and healthy adult relationships. You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites. This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠