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How do you move past genuinely anxiety provoking stimuli

I REALLY recommend the book "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum. I also really struggled with cutting contact with someone that I was anxiously attached to. It hurt a lot when they'd take space rando…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment4/5/2026
Workbook help

It's not a workbook, but "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum has a lot of questions to reflect on and guided meditations. When she asks questions in the book and in the meditation I would pull out my…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment8/5/2025
Feeling bad after dates?

It sounds like you're disowning and shunning your negative feelings. Since they don't seem logical, you're pushing them away. But they're not going to be logical. They're probably the result of repres…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment9/10/2025
Is it a 6th sense or is it anxious attachment?

Anxiously Attached by Jessica Baum. Intro and part of the first chapter is here free: [https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/dam-assets/books/9781529900088/9781529900088-sample.pdf](https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/da…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment11/10/2025
I’m not sure how to process this. Idk if it’s my Anxious Attachment style acting up or if I’m being objective

Have you read "Anxiously Attached?" I found that book really helpful in getting towards secure attachment. The intro and part of the first chapter free here: [https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/dam-assets/bo…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment11/21/2025
I have anxious attachment but I don't know how to break this loop of getting attached to people with insecure attachment styles?

I always recommend "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum. It helped me understand why I thought I had chemistry with people who were not healthy for me but actually causing a lot of anxiety for me. It …

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment11/22/2025
FA breakup & prolonged limbo - does avoidance calcify over time or can it still reverse?

To put all of this together - it sounds like you've been broken up for over a year. Do I have that right? And the relationship was 2 years? So over half of the relationship has passed in the time of i…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment1/9/2026
Anxious Attachment Help

The book "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum was a HUGE help for my anxious attachment. It significantly changed how I processed my last relationship and helped me get far enough along in healing to …

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment1/17/2026
What is my core wound when I don't worry what others think about me, I'm not afraid of being alone, but still no boundaries with closest people

I would guess that while you logically know you have a right to be accepted as you are and you're not afraid to be alone, you have not accepted that on a deep emotional level. Or there's some inner co…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment1/27/2026
Deactivation or undisclosed breakup?

Here is the part that stood out to me: "when I asked what happened? he said ahh busy at work and I know you'd come back to me" He's going to keep doing this. I've been there. I'm sorry to say this, b…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment2/9/2026
How to stop being attracted to "unavailable" people?

I can't recommend the book "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum enough. Reading the book and doing the exercises significantly helped me stop being attracted to people who were unavailable, not intere…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment3/17/2026
What is the link between childhood trauma and anxious attachment in adults?

I REALLY benefitted from reading "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum. I can't recommend it enough. It helped me understand where my anxious attachment came from and actually work on my behaviours and…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment4/4/2026
Just got discarded and could really do with some emotional support.

I'm so sorry this happened. It sounds like you were very kind and considerate to him and he did not communicate well with you. You sound like you're in such a vulnerable place. Totaally understandable…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment4/7/2026