Do You Have Any Advice for Healing Your Own Avoidant Behavior?

Once you recognize your own avoidant tendencies, what can you do to address them?

Here are 3 practical steps you can take to foster your healing, helping you become more open, self-compassionate, and confident in expressing your emotions, bit by bit!

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Question from @thisismaz
#AttachmentStyle #DismissiveAvoidant #Healing #Growth

[gatorssbm]

Solid advice, just heck number 3 is so disorienting when you try because theres just so much to unpack which can also fuel wanting to avoid number 2 which then loops around to maybe being too harsh on yourself. All of these are just a mess intertangled with each other but once you take the first step it progressively becomes easier.

[coppersense]

Absolutely.
For me, healing avoidant, the really next level work, after self-compassion 👈 and connecting to my emotions in real time, is identifying what those emotions are telling me I need and then advancing to asking others to help me meet those needs.
That is mastery though, I still haven't gotten there yet.

[kayla-fshu]

I was very avoidant for years until I healed. I had numbed my feelings and stayed clear of men not by conscious choice but i feared being close to men after an abusive relationship. I just went through my first heartbreak after healing and I just wish I could numb my feelings out again. I’d do anything to just turn them off again. It just hurts deeply and I don’t want to feel this way anymore.

[Aquababy_]

Step 2 in simple words “take your time. Make and incorporate changes in very small ways”

[chintanpatel]

I am a Dismissive Avoidant and it is so extremely difficult to express as I barely know how I feel or what emotion I am going through in the moment. It just feels so miserable when overwhelmed with emotions.

[nicholeb]

Avoidants need to warn people. And work on themselves b4 getting others involved.