Trauma Agora

Is It Love, or My Attachment Style Talking?

Welcome to the Agora! 
✨ Our first ever episode! ✨
We’re kicking off Trauma Agora by diving headfirst into attachment theory, aka why we love the way we do, text the way we do, and sometimes completely self-sabotage (oops).
Can your attachment style actually change, or are we all just a little bit anxious and avoidant forever?  Is it true that, statistically, everyone on Hinge needs therapy? (We confirm with data, and vibes). And how do you move towards the mythical *secure attachment*? We unpack it all, with a few trauma dumps along the way.
 
💬 Chapters 00:00:01 – “Meet the Trauma Trio”
00:00:39 – “WTF Are Attachment Styles?”
00:09:11 – “Anxious and Overthinking (aka Us)”
00:10:41 – “Avoidants, Disorganised, and the Walking Red Flags”
00:12:27 – “Can We Ever Be Normal?”
00:16:45 – “Trauma, Tales, and Oversharing”
00:26:44 – “Dating Apps: The Avoidant’s Playground”
00:35:58 – “How to (Kind Of) Grow Up Emotionally” - Plus Nina’s Crazy Ex Story
00:40:42 – “Wrap-Up & Existential Gratitude”
 
🧠 Highlights
WTF the four attachment styles actually mean
Why are anxious and avoidants *magnetically drawn* to each other?
Real stories of attachment styles gone waaaaay wrong
How do we self-regulate??
Can attachment styles change?
Moving towards secure attachment (lowkey)
 
🧍‍♀️ Meet the Hosts
Emily – 28, podcast producer, proud Midlands dog mum, and self-confessed mix of anxious-avoidant chaos.
Jake – 26, philosopher-in-Lisbon, recovering anxious dater, and resident Marcus Aurelius quoter.
Nina – 29, living in Spain, oldest (and wisest) of the bunch, navigating dating apps with humor and fearlessness.

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Welcome to the Agora!
Trauma Agora is almost here! Join Nina, Jake and Emily as they tackle all the struggles of being in your 20's & 30's, through the form of self help discussions, unpacking philosophy and good old fashioned DMC's. The vibes are gonna be high.
They have no idea, neither do you. Let's just try and figure it out together, shall we?