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Do you want to learn more about your attachment style? Are you excited to improve your life skills or relationships? Our blogs provide authentic, proven, and scientific advice to inspire you to learn, love, and thrive in life.

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27 JUN 2023

How to Overcome Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style

Does the thought of commitment make you cringe? Yet, deep down, you crave the closeness and connection of a romantic relationship.

If you nodded yes to or recognized these patterns in your partner, y...

27 JUN 2023

How to Overcome Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style

Do you crave intimate connections – only to withdraw if someone comes “too close”? Maybe you prefer to leave before someone can leave you?

If so, you might have a fearful avoidant attachment style. ...

31 AUG 2023

8 Ways to Heal a Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style

People with a fearful or disorganized attachment style typically experience some form of childhood abuse or trauma in the form of emotional, physical, or most commonly, verbal abuse. Luckily, healing ...

27 OCT 2023

How to Approach Intimacy If You Have a Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style

Individuals with a dismissive avoidant attachment style tend to struggle with closeness, emotional intimacy, and vulnerability. They tend to crave independence, meaning that acts of intimacy like kiss...

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16 NOV 2023

Can Attachment Styles Change?

According to Attachment Theory -- developed in the 1950s by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby and later expanded on by psychologist Mary Ain...

9 NOV 2023

What are the Different Attachment Styles?

There are 4 types of attachment styles that can be formed during early childhood, depending on a person’s interactions and experiences with parents, caregivers, siblings, relatives, and friends.

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7 NOV 2023

8 Key Differences Between Setting Boundaries and Needing Control

Setting clear boundaries and needing control are related concepts, but they’re very different. When we set personal boundaries, we’re setting clear physical, emotional, and mental limits for living a ...

2 NOV 2023

Here’s Your Healthy Relationship Checklist for 2023

It’s safe to say most of us want healthier relationships, especially if those relationships are with a romantic partner.

Often, it can be hard to understand where, exactly, the issues in your relati...

Thais Gibson

Thais Gibson

Thais Gibson is an author, speaker and leader in the personal development field. She has her MA, BA and is certified in over 13 different modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, NLP, Somatic Processing, and Trauma Work.

Through her academic training and client-based research, Thais has created renowned courses for personal development, growth and relationships. She is also the founder of Gibson Integrated Attachment Theory™, which empowers individuals to heal different attachments in their lives and reprogram any limiting thoughts and behaviours. These teachings have been distilled into the in-depth courses inside of The Personal Development School.

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