
116. Avoidant Attachment: The Subtle Shutdown Your Nervous System Creates | Somatic Attachment Series Part 2
About this episode
Have you ever met someone great, felt genuinely interested, and then suddenly... something just felt off? In this episode of Speak Honest, Jenn Noble takes you inside the somatic experience of avoidant attachment and what is actually happening in your body when you start to pull away. This is Part 2 of the Somatic Attachment Series, and Jenn slows everything down so you can finally understand why that "something's missing" feeling might not be clarity at all. It might just be your nervous system trying to keep you safe.
You might want to listen if:
- You keep losing interest in people who are actually good for you and you can't figure out why
- You find yourself pulling back the moment someone starts getting closer and it always feels completely justified
- You've convinced yourself you just haven't met the right person yet but something keeps not clicking
- You feel numbness or a kind of internal quiet when connection starts to deepen and you don't know what to do with it
- You are tired of mistaking your body's protective response for the truth about your relationships
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