Velcro Love: A Podcast About Attachment Theory, Relationships, Therapy, and Sex
Velcro Love: A Podcast About Attachment Theory, Relationships, Therapy, and Sex
This podcast is place where we discuss all things attachment theory and relationships and therapy and sex.
These are some of the questions that we address on the podcast:
- Why is the podcast called "Velcro Love"? (Hint: Because Velcro holds things together tightly, but it not rigid)
- What is Attachment Theory and why is it so important?
- What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and why is is so great and so helpful?
- Why are safety and trust so important in relationships?
- What are the differences between the attachment styles: secure attachment, anxious-ambivalent attachment, anxious-avoidant attachment, dismissive-avoidance attachment, and disorganized/disoriented attachment?
- Can attachment styles shift and change in adulthood? And if so, how does that happen?
- What is emotional vulnerability and why is it important?
- How does attachment style affect sex and sexual connection?
- What are the key negative sexual cycles that keep people in suffering instead of in healthy and enjoyable sexual connection?
- Advice for dating: what does attachment theory teach us about how to start a relationship?
- What is an attachment wound, and how are they cause, and how can they be healed?
- What are the key things that make up a secure, safe, and trusting relationship?
- What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and why is it effective?
- What does it mean to work in the "present process of emotion" in therapy?
- What are some parenting tips that come out of attachment theory?
- How can I best connect emotionally with my teenage children?
- What do the terms "persuer" and "withdrawer" mean in relationships and why are these terms important?
- What is the most healthy way to work through a divorce or a breakup?'
- What are some tips for dating, talking about sex with your partner, improving sex, and more?
- what are some tips for living with or working with difficult or manipulative people?
Velcro Love: A Podcast About Attachment Theory, Relationships, Therapy, and Sex
Episode 1: Emotional Vulnerability and Attunement
In this episode of VELCRO LOVE the brilliant Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, Jim Thomas, from Colorado, shares his definitions of emotional vulnerability and emotional attunement. Jim uses the basic principles of Attachment Theory to help us understand what it means and looks like to connect with others and inject emotional safety into any conversation. Jim models what it looks like to be emotionally attuned and emotionally vulnerable. Jim shares tips on how to connect with clients, and how to connect with people in general. He gives us the key to peace and connection.