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The Attachment Wound and Why Love Feels Like Danger

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A research-grounded examination of anxious and avoidant attachment as nervous system adaptations — drawing on Bowlby's foundational attachment theory, Ainsworth's Strange Situation studies, Levine and Heller's attachment styles in adults research, and the neuroscience of attachment activation and regulation.

 

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