
The Truth About Each Attachment Style's Biggest Turn Offs
14/1/2026 | 9 mins.
Get 7 Days Free Plus Lifetime Access to Our Ending Codependency Course — Free Forever! Start Creating Relationships That Last. https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/dream-life-codependency-course?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=dream-life-codependency-course&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=pod-01-14-26&el=podcast Have you ever felt deeply turned off, or suddenly rejected, and had no idea why? What repels one attachment style can feel normal or even familiar to another. And many of the biggest turn offs in relationships aren’t conscious choices, they’re subconscious survival patterns. When those patterns go unhealed, they often create codependent dynamics that quietly sabotage connection. 🎥 Episode Summary In today’s video, Thais Gibson reveals the biggest turn offs for each attachment style, Secure, Anxious, Fearful Avoidant, and Dismissive Avoidant, and explains why these patterns trigger attraction, withdrawal, or shutdown at a nervous system level. You’ll learn how subconscious conditioning, unmet childhood needs, and emotional self-abandonment shape what we’re drawn to, and what pushes us away, often without us realizing it. This episode is especially powerful if you: Feel stuck in repeating relationship patterns Are confused by sudden loss of attraction or connection Struggle with codependency, people-pleasing, or emotional over-investment Want to understand both your own triggers and your partner’s ✨ Key Takeaways ✔ Why secure attachment is turned off by inconsistency and emotional games ✔ How anxious attachment chases what actually dysregulates them ✔ The paradox of fearful avoidant attraction and repulsion ✔ Why Dismissive Avoidants shut down around intensity and emotional demands ✔ How subconscious comfort zones shape attraction ✔ Why healing codependency changes who you’re drawn to ✔ How unmet needs, not “chemistry”, drive relationship cycles ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – The Truth About Each Attachment Style's Biggest Turn Offs 00:52 – Secure Attachment 03:06 – Anxious Preoccupied 05:10 – Fearful Avoidant 07:00 – Ending Copependency Course Promo 07:21 – Dismissive Avoidant 09:02 – Check Out/Our Online Programs Meet the Host Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School and a world leader in attachment theory. With a Ph.D. and over a dozen certifications, she’s helped more than 70,000 people reprogram their subconscious and build thriving relationships. Helpful Resources: 🧠 Take the Free Attachment Style Quiz https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=attachment-quiz&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 📚 Read the Learning Love Book https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/learning-love?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=learning-love&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 🎧 Discover Podcast Episodes https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/podcast?page=1 📝 Read the PDS Blog https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/ Let’s Connect on Socials: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePersonalDevelopmentSchool 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thaisgibson 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/

Fearful Avoidants Want to Fix Things When THIS Happens
12/1/2026 | 15 mins.
Start Healing Your Attachment Style With Personalized Courses Taught by Thais Gibson. Free for 7 Days (Enough Time to Complete a Full Course). Limited-time Offer: https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/dream-life?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=7-day-trial&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=pod-01-12-26&el=podcast When a fearful avoidant shuts down, it can feel final, like the door is completely closed. But there are specific moments when a fearful avoidant becomes open to repair, reconnection, and real change. And understanding what actually moves the needle can save you from chasing, over-functioning, or abandoning yourself in the process. 🎥 Episode Summary In today’s video, Thais Gibson breaks down the key conditions that make a fearful avoidant want to fix things after a rupture or breakup and just as importantly, when it’s healthier to step back instead. You’ll learn how fearful avoidant deactivating strategies are driven by unmet needs, core wounds, fear of enmeshment, and emotional disconnection and how authentic communication, boundaries, and nervous system safety can reopen connection without manipulation. This episode is essential if you’re: Trying to repair a relationship with a fearful avoidant Unsure whether reconnection is possible or healthy Or working on your own fearful avoidant patterns ✨ Key Takeaways ✔ Why fearful avoidants often feel “done” — until specific needs are met ✔ The difference between authentic repair and manipulation ✔ Why defining boundaries and converting them into needs is critical ✔ How unmet needs (not the relationship itself) trigger deactivation ✔ The role novelty, trust, and emotional connection play in reconnection ✔ Why fearful avoidants respond deeply to validation, empathy, and clarity ✔ The importance of deadlines so you don’t abandon yourself ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – When Fearful Avoidants Want to Fix the Relationship 00:47 – Manipulation Tactics Won’t Make a Relationship Fulfilling 03:18 – 1. Define Your Boundaries and Convert Them Into Needs 04:58 – 7-Day Free Trial Promo 05:48 – 2. Get Clear About What Wasn’t Working With That Person 06:44 – Why Fearful Avoidants Leave Relationships 08:45 – Their Dealbreakers May Actually Be Solvable Problems 11:30 – 3. Identify Where the Fearful Avoidant Didn’t Feel Heard, Wanted, or Cared for 12:08 – 4. Communicate and Validate Unmet Wounds After 3-4 Weeks 14:05 – Make Sure You Have a Deadline Meet the Host Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School and a world leader in attachment theory. With a Ph.D. and over a dozen certifications, she’s helped more than 70,000 people reprogram their subconscious and build thriving relationships. Helpful Resources: 🧠 Take the Free Attachment Style Quiz https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=attachment-quiz&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 📚 Read the Learning Love Book https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/learning-love?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=learning-love&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 🎧 Discover Podcast Episodes https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/podcast?page=1 📝 Read the PDS Blog https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/ Let’s Connect on Socials: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePersonalDevelopmentSchool 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thaisgibson 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/

How to Get Closure From Someone Who Won't Give It | Anxious Attachment
07/1/2026 | 6 mins.
Start 2026 With Secure Love & True Emotional Wholeness. Get a Free 7-day Trial and keep our Key Pillars for a Secure Relationship Course ($250 Value) FREE for Life. https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/new-year-new-you?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=new-year-new-you&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=pod-01-07-26&el=podcast If you have an Anxious Attachment style, the urge to get closure from someone who pulled away, ghosted you, or shut down can feel overwhelming. But chasing closure from the wrong person often keeps you stuck, emotionally drained, and unable to move on. In this video, Thais Gibson explains why seeking closure isn’t actually the need and what to do instead to regain emotional stability, certainty, and peace. 🎥 EPISODE SUMMARY When someone won’t explain themselves or emotionally meet you after a breakup, it can feel impossible to move forward. But what feels like a need for closure is often a need for certainty. In this episode, Thais walks Anxious Attachment styles through a grounded, practical framework to stop chasing answers from someone who isn’t capable of giving them. You’ll learn how to evaluate whether a person can provide healthy closure, how to understand the emotional “void” left behind, and how to begin meeting your own unmet needs so you can heal more quickly and fully. These steps help you stop looping in rumination, regain emotional safety, and build secure self-connection, without needing anything from your ex. ✨ KEY TAKEAWAYS • Why seeking closure from the wrong person keeps you stuck • The difference between closure and certainty • How to tell if someone is capable of giving healthy closure • Why Anxious Attachment styles struggle most with uncertainty • How to reframe unmet needs after a breakup • What you’re really grieving when you miss your ex • How self-validation and need-meeting accelerate healing ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Seeking Closure Is Not Always the Answer 00:45 – Step 1: Ask Yourself if This Person Is Capable of Giving You Closure 02:11 – Step 2: Remember That You Are Experiencing a Void of Certainty in This Situation 04:22 – Key Pillars for a Secure Relationship Promo 04:41 – Step 3: Look at How Other Needs Were Being Met in That Relationship 05:32 – Step 4: Make a List of the Things You Miss About Your Ex Meet the Host Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School and a world leader in attachment theory. With a Ph.D. and over a dozen certifications, she’s helped more than 70,000 people reprogram their subconscious and build thriving relationships. Helpful Resources: 🧠 Take the Free Attachment Style Quiz https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=attachment-quiz&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 📚 Read the Learning Love Book https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/learning-love?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=learning-love&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 🎧 Discover Podcast Episodes https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/podcast?page=1 📝 Read the PDS Blog https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/ Let’s Connect on Socials: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePersonalDevelopmentSchool 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thaisgibson 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/

Fearful Avoidants Are Often Attracted to THESE 4 Wrong Types of People for Them
06/1/2026 | 10 mins.
Start 2026 With Secure Love & True Emotional Wholeness. Get a Free 7-day Trial and keep our Key Pillars for a Secure Relationship Course ($250 Value) FREE for Life. https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/new-year-new-you?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=new-year-new-you&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=pod-01-05-26&el=podcast If you have a Fearful Avoidant attachment style, the people you feel drawn to are not random. They are often deeply connected to your subconscious comfort zone, nervous system conditioning, and unhealed emotional wounds. In this video, Thais Gibson explains the four most common archetypes Fearful Avoidants are attracted to and exactly what each attraction reveals about where you are in your healing journey and what needs to shift to move toward secure attachment. 🎥 EPISODE SUMMARY Fearful Avoidants often want emotionally healthy, secure relationships, yet repeatedly find themselves pulled toward partners who feel unsafe, unavailable, or overwhelming. Why? Because the subconscious mind is wired for familiarity, not happiness. In this episode, you’ll learn how subconscious conditioning and nervous system dysregulation drive attraction patterns, why chaos can feel like chemistry, and how different attachment archetypes mirror specific inner wounds. Thais walks through four relationship archetypes, including other Fearful Avoidants, Dismissive Avoidants, Anxious partners, and narcissistic types, so you can clearly identify your patterns and begin healing them at the root. ✨ KEY TAKEAWAYS • Why attraction is driven by subconscious safety, not conscious desire • How your “type” reflects how you treat yourself emotionally • The role of nervous system regulation in breaking trauma bonds • Why Fearful Avoidants are drawn to chaos, distance, pressure, or control • How each relationship archetype points to a specific healing focus • What to work on to stop repeating painful relationship cycles • How subconscious healing + somatic work create real change ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – You May Be Attracted to the Wrong People 01:00 – We Are Attracted to Those Aligned With Our Subconscious Comfort Zone 02:36 – Archetype 1: The Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style 05:17 – The Power of Nervous System Regulation and Subconscious Healing Work 06:36 – Key Pillars for a Secure Relationship Promo 06:55 – Archetype 2: The Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style 08:09 – Archetype 3: The Anxious Preoccupied Attachment Style 08:55 – Archetype 4: Narcissists Meet the Host Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School and a world leader in attachment theory. With a Ph.D. and over a dozen certifications, she’s helped more than 70,000 people reprogram their subconscious and build thriving relationships. Helpful Resources: 🧠 Take the Free Attachment Style Quiz https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=attachment-quiz&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 📚 Read the Learning Love Book https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/learning-love?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=learning-love&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 🎧 Discover Podcast Episodes https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/podcast?page=1 📝 Read the PDS Blog https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/ Let’s Connect on Socials: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePersonalDevelopmentSchool 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thaisgibson 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/

What the Dismissive Avoidant Is REALLY DOING When They Go Missing
31/12/2025 | 9 mins.
Unlock clarity, healing, and emotional freedom this Boxing Week with Thais Gibson. Start your FREE 7-day trial to the Personal Development School and get the Healing Family Dynamics Course ($250 Value) FREE for life. https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/healing-family-dynamics-flashsale?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=healing-family-dynamics-flashsale&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=pod-12-31-25&el=podcast When a Dismissive Avoidant suddenly pulls away, stops responding, or “goes missing,” it can feel confusing, painful, and deeply personal. But what’s actually happening beneath the surface is far more complex and far less about you than you might think. In this episode, Thais Gibson breaks down the real emotional and nervous-system processes driving dismissive avoidance, including shame responses, fear of vulnerability, and learned patterns around conflict and emotional expression. If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of this behavior, or if you recognize these patterns in yourself, this video offers clarity, compassion, and a powerful path forward. What You’ll Learn in This Episode Why Dismissive Avoidants often withdraw after moments of emotional closeness How vulnerability activates shame and fear around emotional expression The role of unresolved family dynamics and emotional modeling Why conflict feels overwhelming or unworkable for dismissive avoidants How avoidance becomes a strategy for escaping uncomfortable emotions Why healing these patterns creates more freedom, safety, and connection in relationships ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 – What the Dismissive Avoidant Is REALLY DOING When They Go Missing 00:31 – Dismissive Avoidants and Vulnerability in Relationships 01:29 – Dismissive Avoidants and Conflict in Relationships 02:23 – Dismissive Avoidants Have Core Fears About Their Own Emotions 03:14 – The Shame Response 04:41 – Healing Family Trauma Promo 05:27 – Why Dismissive Avoidants Go Missing 07:07 – Why Dismissive Avoidants Disconnect 08:01 – Why You Should Work On This If You Are A Dismissive Avoidant Meet the Host Thais Gibson is the founder of The Personal Development School and a world leader in attachment theory. With a Ph.D. and over a dozen certifications, she’s helped more than 70,000 people reprogram their subconscious and build thriving relationships. Helpful Resources: 🧠 Take the Free Attachment Style Quiz https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=attachment-quiz&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 📚 Read the Learning Love Book https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/learning-love?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=learning-love&utm_medium=organic&el=podcast 🎧 Discover Podcast Episodes https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/podcast?page=1 📝 Read the PDS Blog https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/ Let’s Connect on Socials: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePersonalDevelopmentSchool 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thaisgibson 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/



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