Finding Freedom: How to End a Relationship with Anxious Attachment

Steps to break up when you're anxiously attached. Anxious attachment style can make relationships a constant source of stress and ending a relationship even harder.
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Video by Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes on integrative behavioral health approaches including counseling techniques and skills for improving mental health and reducing mental illness.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Understanding Anxious Attachment
00:03:56 - Trauma and anxious attachment
00:08:05 - Beginning to Heal
00:12:20 - Addressing Unhelpful Thoughts
00:16:25 - Cognitive Distortions and Healing
00:20:33 - Examining Beliefs in a Toxic Relationship
00:24:23 - The Losses of Ending a Relationship
00:28:07 - Recognizing Disrespect and Broken Promises
00:31:53 - Building a Support System
00:35:48 - The Pain of Change

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[melissarey]

Think it and the internet provides! It's uncanny how often you release a video on a topic a few days after I was discussing it with someone or started contemplating a change in my life. I am so grateful for your channel.

[justinmeynell]

Thank you so much Dr Snipes for all you videos. The topics you cover, like this one, has really helped me understand and recover from my past trauma by watching your videos over the years. It hasn't been easy at times but is a continues work that I have to be mindful of when I'm acting out or thinking a particular way that causes me suffering. The "tools" I have learned from your channel have been very effective and I practice them often now. I am very grateful for your hard work and I keep you as my main mental health video advice for past traumas, rather than jumping around and not sticking with one. Which speaks volumes that I resonate and trust your advice very much. Keep up the hard work and thank you, as it honestly helps others out there, like myself, understand how to live a happier life! Good on you!🤗🙏💯👼

[HaloDaycare]

thank you for this beautiful information

[pj]

It's been a year and ten days since by last break up. We were together for 5 years; lived together for 3 years. I still miss her so much. I know we weren't perfect for each other... and towards the end of the relationship I really didn't like the way she treated me. But I was anxiously attached. My codependency made me terrified to let go. It doesn't hurt as bad as last year but the pain is definitely still there. Since I just crossed the year mark it's made me think about the break up more in recent weeks. I know she wasn't right for me... but I still miss her so much. This video is *Exactly* what I needed right now. Thank you. If anyone has any other insight please feel free to reply. I'm going to rewatch this video tomorrow.

[kathy]

Thank you for providing all this valuable information. Your videos are really helpful 😊❤

[anitach]

The best part of this game is when they don't treat You as You think You deserved for but they prove that is something wrong with You.

[allishagreenphotography]

Thank you prefect for me and so many others ❤

[anitach]

We need relationships, abundance . This is just human nature. What may replace attachment ?What may make really happy. ?

[Jaggerbush]

I'm so confused - I'm in love with someone I've been in love with since we were kids - it's not right - it never is right but at 50 years old I can't be happy with/without this person. I always feel like we are in competition with each other (god forbid one of us loses weight or travels) it's completely unhealthy. This is just the tip of the iceberg. It's so much more complicated and unhealthy. I feel like I'm crazy every time I reconnect with this person. And when I make time away from them (sometimes for as long as a decade at a time) I still miss them terribly. I'm losing my mind.

[huffysheraton]

Wow, wish I had this video 20 years earlier when I was single. It's all good though, I married a psychologist!