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Lou's Intimate Open House Updates with Voice Notes: Lou's open house now includes personal voice notes, offering a more intimate and conversational experience for subscribers. Listeners can also enjoy a discount on Lilybod's activewear and self-care products.
The open house subscription has been revamped to include personal voice notes from Lou, providing a more intimate and conversational experience for subscribers. Lou shared the inspiration behind voice notes came from a moment in her life when she was in England and wanted to update her community on a private matter. Since then, voice notes have become a fun and engaging way for Lou to connect with her audience, no matter where she is in the world. Additionally, the episode sponsor, Lilybod, was highlighted for their focus on both physical and mental health, offering high-quality activewear for various activities and promoting self-care. Open house listeners can enjoy a 40% discount on the entire Lilybod collection using the code "open house VIP" at checkout.
Healing Attachment Injuries: Attachment injuries can be healed, and understanding their impact is crucial for healthy relationships. Seek support and resources to promote healing.
Attachment wounds, like physical injuries, can be healed. The speaker shares her personal experience of demonizing avoidantly attached individuals but recognizes the importance of understanding and healing attachment injuries as healthy people don't demonize others. The speaker also mentions that a large portion of the population is insecurely attached and encourages support for resources like Open House Premium to help heal these wounds. Through her own journey and working with Sarah, she's come to understand the biological and physical aspects of attachment injuries and emphasizes the potential for healing. The speaker uses her personal experiences of broken toes to illustrate the analogy between physical and emotional healing.
Understanding the causes of avoidant attachment: Instead of judging avoidantly attached individuals, try to empathize with their past experiences that led to this pattern.
Instead of demonizing the avoidantly attached for their struggles with intimacy and vulnerability, we should try to understand the underlying causes of their attachment style. These individuals often developed this pattern as a protective response to past failures in receiving love and support during childhood. By recognizing this, we can foster empathy and compassion, rather than judgment and demonization. Additionally, it's important to remember that we should not try to understand their situation from the inside of an intimate partnership with them, but rather from an outside perspective. Understanding the origins of avoidant attachment can lead to a more nuanced and compassionate approach to these individuals.
Fear of ignored love needs drives avoidant behavior: Both anxious and avoidant individuals crave love but respond differently due to past experiences and attachment styles. Avoidant individuals seek distance to protect past wounds, while anxious individuals seek control to ease their insecurities.
Avoidant individuals in relationships do not withhold love due to a lack of feelings or caring, but rather due to past experiences of ignored love needs. Both anxious and avoidant attachment styles involve insecurity and discomfort with true intimacy, but the anxious attachment style seeks control, while the avoidant style seeks distance. Rejection, which can take many forms in today's society, is a common fear for both types. Despite their different behaviors, both anxious and avoidant individuals desire love. The sudden disappearance or withdrawal of an avoidant partner can leave the other person feeling confused and questioning their actions, while a securely attached person might simply find it strange behavior.
Fear of Intimacy: Defenses Kick In: People who avoid intimacy may initially seem interested but shut down as the connection deepens due to past experiences of shame or rejection, leading to a fear of emotional vulnerability and a subconscious belief that intimacy will cause harm.
The avoidantly attached in relationships can initially come across as interested or even strong, but as the connection deepens, their defenses may kick in, making intimacy uncomfortable and triggering a biological response to shut down. This reaction can stem from past experiences of shame or rejection for expressing emotions, leading to a fear of intimacy and a subconscious belief that it will lead to pain or harm. Understanding these patterns can help individuals navigate relationships more effectively and communicate openly about their emotional needs.
Understanding Attachment Styles and Their Impact: Recognize that attachment styles are shaped by biology and childhood experiences, and everyone is on a healing journey. Compassion and understanding are key to building healthy relationships, regardless of attachment style.
While some people may have self-awareness about their attachment styles and the resulting patterns in relationships, others may not be consciously aware. Those who are not aware can unintentionally cause harm. It's essential to recognize that individuals' biologies and childhood experiences shape their attachment styles, leading to unique ways of showing up in the world. Demonizing those who lack self-awareness is not productive. Instead, we should aim for compassion and understanding, acknowledging that everyone is on a healing journey. While there may be more individuals seeking help for anxiously attached styles, avoidantly attached individuals can also do the work to grow and build healthy relationships. It's crucial to remember that everyone deserves the opportunity to heal and learn, regardless of their attachment style.
Identifying Emotionally Unavailable Partners: The Anxiously Attached Guide helps identify emotionally unavailable partners during dating, providing signs, questions, and tools for self-reflection and growth.
Engaging with avoidantly attached individuals can be harmful to your emotional wellbeing. These individuals may not be willing or able to work on their emotional wounds, and attempting to heal their wounds can lead to further pain rather than growth. The Anxiously Attached Guide, a new PDF created by the speaker, aims to help individuals identify emotionally unavailable partners and avoid them. The guide includes 20 signs to look out for during the dating stage, key questions to ask, subtle signs to gauge emotional availability, and phrases that maintain emotional distance. Additionally, the guide provides a three-step process to stop getting hurt and tools to distinguish genuine emotional connections from superficial encounters. It's essential to understand why you're attracted to emotionally unavailable people and work on addressing that underlying issue to improve your dating life. The PDF is not only about identifying the other person but also about self-reflection and growth.
Embracing Compassion, Curiosity, and Understanding: The speaker values compassion, curiosity, and understanding in all aspects of life and strives to create the best resources for her audience, inviting listeners to join her community for more.
Despite struggling with control and perfectionism, the speaker values compassion, curiosity, and understanding in all aspects of life. She emphasizes the importance of approaching everything from multiple angles and strives to create the best possible resources for her audience. The speaker also invites listeners to join her community for more in-depth content and personal insights. Additionally, she shares her personal experiences and appreciates the connections she's made through her work. Despite the challenges, her dedication to growth and helping others shines through.
Understanding attachment styles in relationships: Avoid impulsive love by asking questions and learning about partners' emotional availability during dating stage. Practice self-awareness to calm anxious attachment styles and lead a more relaxed life.
It's important to be aware of attachment styles in relationships and not fall in love too quickly without getting to know someone's emotional availability. The speaker shares an anecdote about going to great lengths to meet someone important, implying that we should put in effort to understand potential partners' attachment styles before getting too invested. She encourages us to ask questions during the dating stage and learn about pacing to avoid getting swept up in emotions. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and calming down our anxious attachment styles to lead a more relaxed and fulfilling life. Overall, the message is to approach relationships with intention and awareness, rather than impulsively falling in love.
