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Healing Your Inner Child and Overcoming Emotional Unavailability
17:26 - 32:14 (14:47)
In this episode, the speaker discusses the importance of treating oneself as you would treat your childhood self in order to heal childhood attachment wounds and overcome emotional unavailability that may be affecting relationships. The speaker also emphasizes that emotional unavailability is not solely limited to romantic relationships and can affect friendships as well.
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Sometimes emotional unavailability can be exciting and attractive to those who are not emotionally available themselves.
17:26 - 21:53 (04:27)
Summary
Sometimes emotional unavailability can be exciting and attractive to those who are not emotionally available themselves. Ghosting can be a sign of emotional unavailability, and it is common for emotionally unavailable people to be attracted to each other in an effort to avoid intimacy and vulnerability.
ChapterHealing Your Inner Child and Overcoming Emotional Unavailability
Episode82. The psychology of emotional unavailability
PodcastThe Psychology of your 20’s
The rise of new relationship terms like 'situationships' is a result of societal shifts away from commitment and traditional relationship archetypes, leading to emotional shallowness that's becoming prevalent in this generation.
21:53 - 26:21 (04:27)
Summary
The rise of new relationship terms like 'situationships' is a result of societal shifts away from commitment and traditional relationship archetypes, leading to emotional shallowness that's becoming prevalent in this generation. It's essential to focus on being emotionally available to yourself as the most critical relationship one can have.
ChapterHealing Your Inner Child and Overcoming Emotional Unavailability
Episode82. The psychology of emotional unavailability
PodcastThe Psychology of your 20’s
The host shares that in order to heal childhood attachment wounds that may be contributing to emotional unavailability, you need to start to speak to yourself as if you are speaking to your childhood self.
26:21 - 32:14 (05:53)
Summary
The host shares that in order to heal childhood attachment wounds that may be contributing to emotional unavailability, you need to start to speak to yourself as if you are speaking to your childhood self. By allowing yourself to feel your emotions, showing unconditional love, and creating emotional safety, you create an internal environment for your inner child to feel safe.