Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist

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Transparency breeds trust. Healthy people do not resent requests for transparency. They know transparency will deepen your relationship.

Depression is a natural response to miserable conditions that are slowly killing you. No medication can change your circumstances, they can only numb you to the pain. And even that won't be enough. Meds can numb you enough to take action, but eventually you must TAKE ACTION.

You can’t receive intimacy if you’re always rehearsing how to stay guarded.

When love has been conditional your whole life, genuine care feels suspicious at first.

Healthy love doesn’t make you feel small.

What you call “overthinking” might just be your nervous system trying to protect you from past patterns.

“I’m an empath, I FEEL other peoples’ emotions!” Yes, we all have mirroring neurons. You just have an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex with weak emotional regulation, oxytocin starvation, and anxious attachment which makes you crave codependent connection with unstable people.

My 5th podcast episode with @ChrisWillx just went live, and if you care at all about modern young men spiraling into despair and how to fix the broken state of marriage, you do NOT want to miss it. Watch it here: youtu.be/83xMu6m6lYI?si…

Not everyone who pulls away is trying to hurt you. Some people just don’t know how to stay.

You can love someone deeply and still not be safe with them. Both can be true.

The children MOST AT RISK of addictive behaviors (dopamine bingeing) are kids with attachment issues leaving them low on oxytocin, vasopressin, serotonin, and GABA. Dopamine is all they have left, and their phone supplies that in the worst ways possible.

On the surface this sounds like a great idea... if every woman in the world was fully honest, moral, and kind. In reality, this sounds like a gateway for female predators to ruin men's lives for revenge or personal gain.