4 Attachment Styles and Emotional Dysregulation
Orange County Christian Counseling
Everyone has ways of navigating intimacy and relationships, called our attachment style. Factors like how caring or distant a parent was and how safe we felt as a child in our family influence our adult relationships. Similarly, many people have a threshold for how much they can handle emotionally. When everything is balanced and calm, we are emotionally regulated. Every so often, though, we experience periods of emotional turmoil known as emotional dysregulation. Attachment Styles There is a connection between our attachment style and how we experience emotional dysregulation. We might struggle in our relationships simply because we don’t understand how our childhood experiences still affect us. Let’s consider the...
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