Avoidant Attachment Resources
Stop Depriving Yourself! Five Self Care Steps to Create The Quality of Life You Yearn For
This is the name of the book written by Elizabeth Wedington and Anne Stirling Hastings available in November 2018. If you would like notification of publication enter your email and we will be delighted to let you know! You grew up deprived. This crazy culture makes sure that no one gets off free of deprivation. […]
Therapy and Meditation Groups
I have found that combining group therapy with the ideas and guided meditations of Dr. Joe Dispenza greatly increases the benefits. Groups meet for 2.5 hours which allows time for a 40 minute meditation guided by Dr. Joe. Each member will have read most of one of his books so everyone understands that we begin […]
Narcissism – Meditate it Away
Have you been told that you are narcissistic? Perhaps by a partner, or an adult child? Maybe people at work? Even a therapist? You want to protest. “No, wait, that isn’t me.” But at the same time, you would rather do what you want, go to restaurants you prefer, engage with others only when it […]
Meditate Out of Avoidant Attachment
You have discovered that avoidant attachment leaves you feeling alone, maybe even depressed. You feel the need to pull away from others in order to keep a sense of yourself. True to yourself. But it can be lonely. Meditation offers a way to begin a healing change process while maintaining the avoidant style. Don’t make […]
How Sex Can Repair Attachment Deprivation
All of us were deprived of the full on attachment with our mothers because of the society we live in. Babies need to stay in contact with their mother, the body they came out of, in order to attach well. It took attachment theory research to get hospitals to allow this to happen, in contrast […]
Avoidant Attachment can Stop Your Sex Life
Funny how people write about sexual issues as if all you have to do is learn new positions, and tell each other what you like in bed. Your style of attachment can have a huge impact, and if you don’t know this, you can’t figure out what to change to make things better. Elizabeth Wedington […]
Stopping Avoidant Attachment
I grew up feeling like an alien because I was so severely avoidant of people and, actually, of life. I did this because it seemed to make me safe from my mother’s hatred and threat of killing me. Well, yes, believing I could make myself safe from being killed was a very good reason to […]
Why is Avoidant Attachment So Hard to Stop?
http://www.annestirlinghastings.com/wp-content/uploads/005-cnl-podcast-avoidant-attachment.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (28.9MB)Avoiding others and not attaching is designed to make us feel secure. Odd, isn’t it? We have to take a look at how avoiding attachment actually did serve us at one point, and how it no longer does. But let me say that there are ways! Elizabeth Wedington […]
Healing Avoidant Attachment Style of Interaction
Avoidant Attachment is no way to live. It cuts us off from others, and from so much of the meaning of our lives. We don’t get the closeness and intimacy that those who are more securely attached do. I have been healing my own for some time now, and the outcome is quite wonderful. Becoming […]
Sexual Symptoms of Avoidant Attachment
Doesn’t it make sense that if a person is avoidantly attached, they might have issues around being lovingly sexual? Maybe you’ve been with a man who seems to disappear when you’re having sex. He does the acts, but he could be anybody. Or she just lies there, doing nothing, waiting for it to be over. […]