Our stories can place us anywhere on a wide spectrum of how we approach
Our stories can place us anywhere on a wide spectrum of how we approach intimacy, but people can generally be divided into categories for how they attach to others: avoidant, anxious, and secure. Avoidant and anxious attachment styles are often the result of early trauma, while secure attachment tends to mean your childhood was healthy.
Psychotherapist Emily Morehead told Insider attachment style "plays into every relationship that we have and honestly how we view other humans" — relationships, workplaces, parenting, sexuality, and so on.
"The root of the problem does have a lot of links to that attachment style and those early relationships," she said. "A lot of the therapy that we do is helping people feel strong enough and brave enough to believe that they're worthy of learning that about themselves."
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