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Healing Childhood Trauma
Welcome to Healing Childhood Trauma for Millennial Women where healing meets growth. The podcast where we deep dive into healing from the past, overcoming high functioning anxiety and attachment to have better relationships with ourselves and others.
I'm Lizandra Leigertwood, a psychotherapist and relationship therapist who specialises in childhood trauma in adults helping you to transform the relationship you have with yourself and others.
I share the in and outs of being able to let go people pleasing, high functioning anxiety and having better relationships in a way that is practical and relatable.
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Healing Childhood Trauma
Anxious Attachment or Unsafe Relationship? [Ep 54]
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If you’ve ever been told you have an anxious attachment style this episode is going to make you pause.
In this conversation, I explore whether what we call anxious attachment is sometimes a nervous system responding to emotional inconsistency, unpredictability, or lack of safety in a relationship.
We talk about:
- What anxious attachment actually is
- Why women are often labelled “anxious” too quickly
- The difference between attachment wounds and ongoing unsafe dynamics
- How emotional unavailability keeps anxiety alive
- Why your reactions might make sense
This isn’t dismissing attachment theory. It’s adding nuance.
Before you try to regulate yourself into being less reactive, it might be worth asking whether your nervous system is responding to something real.
If this resonates and you’re ready to explore your attachment patterns more deeply, you can find details about working with me 1:1 (UK and EU only)