In this special guest episode, Alissa sits down with therapist and author Jessica Baum to explore how attachment styles develop, how they relate to sensitivity, and what healing secure attachment actually looks like.

Jessica explains why so many highly sensitive people lean anxious in relationships, what it means to internalize safety, and how to start rewiring our attachment patterns through co-regulation and safe connection.

This conversation offers compassionate insight into the “too much / not enough” wound, emotional neglect, and the cultural obsession with independence that often keeps us disconnected from true intimacy and support.

What you'll learn:

• What the four attachment styles are—and how they develop in childhood
• Why highly sensitive people often fall into anxious attachment
• How attachment patterns show up in adult relationships (and how they can shift)
• The role of anchors in healing attachment wounds
• How to find emotional safety when your partner isn’t ready for therapy
• The anxious–avoidant dance and how to break the cycle
• Why emotional neglect is so misunderstood—and how to recognize it
• Reframing sensitivity as a strength and path to deeper connection

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