Affect and Attachment Part 3: The Missing Link in Attachment: How Your Core Feelings Shape Your Relationships

About this episode

Dr. Scott discusses how core feelings influence attachment and relationships, emphasizing the importance of emotional safety and flexible emotional expression.

Send us Fan Mail What if safety isn’t the absence of feeling but the right amount at the right time? Dr. Scott guides us through a clear, compassionate roadmap for building secure attachment—one rooted in proportional emotion, reliable recovery, and honest integration between what we feel, what our bodies do, and what we show others. Instead of chasing “feel more” or “feel less,” we learn how to develop flexible volume control so intensity matches reality and connection gets easier. We start...

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Host: Dr. Scott

Topics covered

• attachment
• core feelings
• relationships
• emotional safety
• flexible volume control

Keywords

• attachment theory
• core feelings
• emotional safety
• relationships
• mental health

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