Dear Caitlin №5: I’d like to have a healthy relationship, but it disrupts my life, so I avoid it.

Hi Caitlin.

Hi Caitlin.

As a person with mostly anxious attachment (although my actions are to avoid showing this and avoid relationships in general, bc they trigger this), how do you recommend dealing with the trigger when (not if) it happens? The nervous system has a life of its own and activates a trauma response of looping images and thoughts of the person, maki…