May 02, 2025

Relationship Anxiety: What You Need to Know About Anxious Preoccupied Attachment

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Ever feel like you’re constantly fearing rejection or abandonment—even in a good relationship?

You might be experiencing relationship anxiety fueled by anxious preoccupied attachment. In this heartfelt and insightful episode of The Thais Gibson Podcast, Thais unpacks the subconscious patterns, wounds, and behaviors that drive relationship anxiety—and shares powerful tools to help you heal, self-soothe, and thrive in love.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔️ Why anxious attachment forms from inconsistent emotional caregiving

✔️ How hyper-attunement to others’ needs leads to self-abandonment

✔️ The link between unresolved childhood needs and intense fear of rejection

✔️ How anxious partners unconsciously overextend and people-please

✔️ Why anxious types often misinterpret neutral behaviors as rejection

✔️ How to reprogram your core wounds, self-soothe effectively, and stop overexplaining

✔️ Practical daily strategies to build self-worth and emotional resilience

Whether you identify with anxious attachment yourself or love someone who does, this episode gives you deep insight, actionable tools, and hope for building secure and lasting relationships.

Meet Your Host:

Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School, a best-selling author, and an internationally recognized expert on attachment theory and subconscious reprogramming. With a Ph.D. and over 13 certifications, she’s helped over 70,000 students heal their relationships and emotional lives from the inside out.

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