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Can You Change Your Attachment Style? With Amir Levine

4/17/202642 min

The author of Attached, Amir Levine, M.D., is back with a new book called Secure and a whole new framework for understanding why your relationships feel the way they do. In this episode, we get into the biggest misconceptions about anxious and avoidant attachment, the truth about whether you can actually change your attachment style, why avoidants shut down instead of showing up, what a "closeness overdose" is and why it kills perfectly good relationships, and the five pillars of a secure life built around his CARP framework: consistent, available, responsive, reliable, and predictable.

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Clips

Childhood Doesn’t Seal Fate
Inside The Avoidant Mind
The Closeness Overdose
Anxiety’s Hidden Superpower
Rock The Boat Early
Meet CARP: Secure Made Simple
It Hurts The Brain
A Textbook CARP Intervention
Give Attention, Get Space
Attachment Is A Simple Switch

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First 90 seconds

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  3. Sabrina Zohar· Host0:57

    Are avoidants bad people, or do they just shut down and are misunderstood? Are you doomed to be your attachment style for life? Like, can you actually heal through the anxious attachment, or are you just, that's it, you're always gonna feel like this? Well, today we have the author of Attached, Amir Levine, in the studio to talk about all those questions and more. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of The Sabrina Zohar Show. My name is Sabrina Zohar, and I am your host. Welcome back, my babes. We've got such a special episode. Amir Levine is such an incredible human

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