#72: 5 Tips for Loving Someone Well

In this Ask Steph episode, we explore one of the most common (and understandable) questions in anxious–avoidant dynamics: what actually helps an avoidant partner feel safe enough to open up emotionally?If you tend toward anxious attachment, it can feel deeply unsettling to sense ...  Show more

Situationships can feel exciting and full of potential, but over time they often become a source of anxiety, confusion, and self-doubt. In this episode, I explore why situationships are so hard to walk away from — particularly for people with anxious attachment — and why clarity ...  Show more

This is something a little different for you today. I wanted to share a beautiful conversation I had with my good friend Humble The Poet, where we talk about how to love yourself, set bo ...

I truly loved this conversation my friend @lindseystirling . So often in life we’re told how important it is to love ourselves without any explanation of what that actu ...

"It's not that we don't have a gut feeling, but it's that we've learned to ignore the gut feelings or we have normalized feeling bad."

Do you ever have doubts whether someone is love bombing you or is actually being nice? ...

Love is a big idea to try to understand. What is love? How does everything around us affect how we view and experience love? What we think is love may not actually be love, but a misconstrued idea of it based on a huge number of factors. All this is to say that love can be compli ...  Show more