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Send Me Questions on Attachment

Your anxiety isn’t random noise; it’s an alarm. The real question is what it’s warning you about. We explore the line between general anxiety and anxious attachment, showing how one spreads across life’s domains while the other flares when intimacy gets close enough to test old maps. With clear definitions of GAD, social anxiety, separation anxiety, and panic attacks, we lay out where these experiences overlap and where they diverge, so you can stop guessing and start noticing patterns.
From there, we dig into the heart of anxious attachment: a positive view of others paired with a shaky view of self, born from inconsistent caregiving and sustained by protest behaviors that seek closeness through urgency. You’ll learn how to read rupture and repair as the most reliable evidence of a relationship’s stability, and how to build a personal toolkit that actually works under stress—breath practices, grounding, prayer, and co‑regulation with secure people who help your body feel safe again.
We also bring faith into the conversation without shaming your story. Many of us project human patterns onto God, but security with God can transform how we handle triggers with people. When you treat God as a true secure base—returning in prayer, anchoring in Scripture, and seeking wise counsel—the alarm shifts from panic to guidance. By pairing nervous system skills with honest relationship audits, you can become more secure over time, even if anxiety still visits.
Ready to tell whether it’s anxiety in general or an attachment alarm? Press play, take notes on your own rupture‑repair history, and share this with someone who needs language for what they feel. If this helped, subscribe, leave a 5‑star review, and tell us: what evidence of repair do you look for?

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I hope these episodes bring you closer to Christ and encourage you in your walk with Him. Meditating on Scripture, Being committed to prayer, and Seeking Christian community are all essential to helping us learn more of who He is and who He made us to be.

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I have been a Christ-follower for the last 20+ years of my life, and have seen the Lord's grace, strength, and faithfulness through it all. He led me to pursue a degree in higher education and has given me a gift for the field of counseling.

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Chapters

1. Welcome Back + Big Announcement (00:00:00)

2. Defining Anxiety As An Alarm System (00:01:58)

3. Everyday Signs Of Anxiety (00:04:21)

4. Mapping Anxiety Disorders (00:05:01)

5. Separation Anxiety Across The Lifespan (00:10:11)

6. Social Anxiety And Fear Of Judgment (00:13:19)

7. Panic And Generalized Anxiety (00:16:48)

8. What Anxious Attachment Really Is (00:19:01)

9. Rupture And Repair As Evidence (00:23:11)

10. Calming The Nervous System In Practice (00:26:16)

11. Co‑Regulation And Partner Fit (00:29:04)

12. How Close Bonds Activate Attachment (00:32:12)

13. Faith, God, And Secure Base (00:35:02)

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