Anxiously Attached

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Do you constantly talk with your friends about your partner and your relationship? If your partner doesn't answer a text quickly, do you become anxious? Or do you check up on your partner online to know about their every move?


If so, you might identify with having an anxious attachment style and find yourself more prone to insecurity, jealousy and co-dependency. But there is plenty you can do to feel stronger and more secure within yourself and improve the quality of your relationships.

Expert psychotherapist and couples' counsellor Jessica Baum has over ten years' experience helping her clients discover the mutually supportive relationships they deserve. In Anxiously Attached, she shares the groundbreaking research and practical tools you need to understand your core attachment patterns and form healthier and more fulfilling relationships.

In this book you will learn how to:
- Create boundaries to safeguard your sense of self in relationships
- Communicate to your partners what you need to feel safe and secure in the relationship
- Develop a secure sense of self-worth and emotional stability

Full of psychological insight, useful exercises and real-life case studies of people who learned how to connect on a deeper and more secure level, Anxiously Attached is an essential roadmap to finding and sustaining love.

© Jessica Baum 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

  • For any of us who repeatedly find ourselves in relationships that increase our anxiety, Jessica Baum’s Anxiously Attached is essential

    Bonnie Badenoch, author of The Heart of Trauma
  • This book is a gift to your true self

    Shannon Kaiser, author of The Self-Love Experiment
  • Empowering, actionable tools that take the self-love and self-care movements to the next level

    Ruby Warrington, author of Material Girl, Mystical World
  • Jessica Baum’s forthrightness, vulnerability and clinical sensitivity provide the foundation for a powerful journey of growth

    Daniel J Siegel, bestselling author of Mindsight
  • For any of us who repeatedly find ourselves in relationships that increase our anxiety, Jessica Baum’s Anxiously Attached is essential. She offers equal portions of science and heart to help us understand why this happens, charts a healing path that will allow us to develop security within, and walks with us step by step as we open to the mutually supportive, ever-deepening relationships that we all desire.

    Bonnie Badenoch, author of Being a Brain-Wise Therapist and The Heart of Trauma

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