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How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Life

How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Life

How can understanding your attachment style lead to improved health and wellbeing? Learn from leading attachment expert Helen Dent.

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I have always felt relatively secure in my long-term romantic relationships but anxious and sometimes avoidant in friendships and social and work relationships. How would attachment theory explain this?
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Is it known what impact adoption has on attachment style?
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What disorders are commonly misdiagnosed instead of attachment difficulties?
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Is it possible to relieve an anxious/ambivalent attachment style? If so, how?
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Which caretaker behaviors are most likely to lead to an anxious/ambivalent attachment style? And is your attachment style always formed by your early childhood experiences?
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How to be good at dating while having an anxious/ambivalent attachment style?
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Is there any tips on how to decide if your worries of being left, deceived or rejected is due to your insecure attachment style or due to actual/realistic signs/behaviors in the relationship?
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Is there an online quiz you'd recommend that's a good starting point to give clients when you're wanting to unpack their attachment style with them in a future session?
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If a client grows an awareness their early attachments were not ideal, do they go on and change behaviours or are they broken.
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