Attachment styles are relational styles, not verdicts. When labels turn rigid, they harm rather than heal—missing the fluid, relational, and changeable nature of attachment.

How you interact with people as an adult can depend on the important relationships you had when you were young. If you didn’t get the support, care, love, and comfort you needed during childhood, you ...

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One of the auxiliary benefits of therapy, no matter what you’ve come to discuss, is that it helps you develop healthy attachment. It occurs because therapy is a process that keeps and nourishes clear ...