
EP 399: Attachment Styles with King13
From Sobertown Podcast by Drifter
March 22, 2026 · 36 min · Episode 512
About this episode
King 13 discusses attachment styles and their impact on relationships, emphasizing trauma, communication, and coping strategies.
King 13 follows up on intergenerational trauma, promotes Sober Town resources (nearly 400 podcasts and Zoom support), and shares researched reflections (not medical advice) on addressing trauma through open communication, commitment to change, and parenting with awareness. She explains adult attachment issues rooted in early neglect/abuse and outlines secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized attachment styles, plus how fears of abandonment, rejection, engulfment, vulnerability, and conflict can harm relationships. She describes trauma bonding’s seven stages, relationship red flags, codependency, and how substance use disorder affects partners and trust, offering strategies such as boundaries, self-awareness, weekly relationship check-ins, therapy, and healthier coping. He emphasizes self-love, CBT, challenging thoughts, and nervous system regulation tools like box breathing and vagus nerve practices (breathing, humming, singing, gargling), concluding with gratitude, resilience, and choosing a simple, healthy life. About The Host: Deborah Battista aka King 13 began hosting podcasts not long after Sobertown launched. With their aligned values & passion to help others…
People in this episode
Host: Deborah Battista
Guest: King 13
Topics covered
- attachment styles
- intergenerational trauma
- communication
- parenting
- substance use disorder
- self-love
- mental health
Keywords
- attachment styles
- trauma bonding
- codependency
- self-awareness
- relationship check-ins
- CBT
- nervous system regulation
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