70. You'll Never Believe How Your Attachment Style Is Showing Up In Your Marriage - With DR. ANGIE RICHEY

This is The Energy to Heal, your resource for all things Splankna, the faith-based inner healing modality that will help you achieve emotional freedom. In this episode, Laura Milliken sits down with Angie Richie for a conversation about attachment theory—and how the relationships we experienced early in life can continue shaping the way we connect, communicate, and feel safe with other people as adults.

Have you ever wondered why you crave closeness in a relationship while someone else seems to pull away from it?

Why conflict can make one person desperately want to talk while the other person needs distance?

Or why you can know someone loves you and still struggle to feel secure in the relationship?

Some of those patterns may have roots that began much earlier than we realize.

Laura and Angie unpack the basics of attachment theory and explore how our earliest experiences of connection, safety, responsiveness, and trust can influence the way we approach marriage, friendships, family relationships, and emotional intimacy later in life.

Understanding your attachment style isn't about blaming your parents or putting yourself into another psychological box. It's about becoming curious about why you respond the way you do—and recognizing patterns that may no longer be serving you or your relationships.

This conversation also offers hope: your earliest experiences may have shaped you, but they don't have to dictate the way you relate to people forever.

In this episode: What attachment theory is and why it matters

How our earliest relationships can influence adult connection

The different ways people respond to closeness, distance, and vulnerability

Why some people crave reassurance while others instinctively pull away