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Dear Anxious Attachments: The First Steps to Overcoming Activating Strategies & Anxiety

Dear Anxious Attachments: The First Steps to Overcoming Activating Strategies & Anxiety

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Feel like your emotions sometimes hijack your actions in relationships? You're not alone.

In this validating episode of The Thais Gibson Podcast, Thais walks you through the early and critical steps to understand and overcome activating strategies—the emotional impulses that lead anxious and fearful avoidants to chase connection in ways that can backfire. You'll learn exactly why your mind creates activating thoughts, how to stop acting from fear, and what conscious strategies you can use to rewire these old patterns.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔️ What activating strategies are (and how they sabotage healthy relationships) ✔️ How unmet needs and emotional triggers drive “emergency” behaviors ✔️ The difference between conscious choices vs. subconscious survival reactions ✔️ Why respecting others' boundaries supports your long-term emotional needs ✔️ Practical tools to witness, interrupt, and reprogram activating thoughts ✔️ How self-awareness and repetition can rewire your subconscious mind for secure love

If you've ever had that "urge" to text, call, show up uninvited, or overexplain after someone pulls away—this episode gives you the clarity and steps to break free from old emotional cycles and move toward calm, conscious connection.

Meet Your Host:

Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School, a best-selling author, and an expert in healing attachment wounds and reprogramming the subconscious mind. With a Ph.D. and over 13 certifications, Thais has helped over 70,000 people create emotional security and healthier relationships.

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📝 Explore the PDS Blog https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/

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