The Thais Gibson Podcast

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If you’re dealing with someone who acts emotionally involved but pulls away when commitment comes up, or if you resonate with the dismissive avoidant attachment style, this episode will bring clarity, relief, and a clear path forward.

 

Episode Summary

Dismissive Avoidants often desire connection, but without the vulnerability and commitment that deeper relationships require. In this episode, Thais Gibson breaks down the core subconscious reasons behind this pattern, including unmet emotional modeling in childhood, fear of vulnerability, difficulty resolving conflict, and feeling misunderstood or criticized in relationships.

You’ll learn how these attachment wounds form, why they lead to commitment resistance, and how healing your attachment style can help you build emotionally secure, fulfilling relationships, without losing your sense of independence.

 

Key Takeaways

What defines the dismissive avoidant attachment style

How unmodeled emotional connection impacts adult relationships

Why vulnerability can feel unsafe or threatening

How unresolved conflict fuels fear of commitment

Why dismissive avoidants often feel misunderstood or criticized

How attachment-style healing creates safety, clarity, and deeper intimacy

 

Timestamps

00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:27 – The Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style
00:01:05 – Reason #1: Unmodeled Pillars Of Emotional Connection
00:04:26 – Reason #2: Struggle With Vulnerability
00:06:41 – 7-Day Free Trial: Dismissive Avoidant In The 6 Stages Of A Relationship
00:07:02 – Reason #3: Unable To Resolve Conflict
00:10:15 – Reason #4: Feeling Misunderstood And Criticized
00:12:32 – Summary

 

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
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🎧 Discover Podcast Episodes
https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/podcast?page=1

📝 Read the PDS Blog
https://blog.personaldevelopmentschool.com/

Let’s Connect on Socials:
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📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePersonalDevelopmentSchool
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💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepersonaldevelopmentschool/

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If you have a Fearful Avoidant attachment style, you may feel emotionally numb, unsure of your needs, or like you’ve lost touch with who you truly are. This disconnection often develops as a survival response but it can be healed.

In this episode, Thais Gibson walks you through how to recover long-lost self-connection and rebuild a secure relationship with yourself, so you can stop living on autopilot and start making aligned, grounded decisions in your life and relationships.

Episode Summary
This episode explores why Fearful Avoidant individuals often struggle with self-connection and how early environments, chronic stress, people-pleasing, and emotional suppression can lead to disconnection from needs, boundaries, and identity.

You’ll learn the three core pillars of self-connection and how each one plays a vital role in healing attachment wounds:

Learning who you truly are
Reconnecting with your body and emotional signals
Developing a strong identity without rigid attachment
These tools help you feel safer within yourself, reduce emotional numbing, and create clarity in relationships, career choices, and personal direction.

Key Takeaways
Why living on autopilot and chronic people-pleasing weaken self-connection
How emotional numbing and escapism block clarity around needs and boundaries
Introspection: learning your needs, values, boundaries, and what lights you up
Embodiment: using body awareness to access emotions and regulate the nervous system
Identity: building a strong sense of self without becoming rigid or over-attached
How reconnecting with yourself supports long-term healing for fearful avoidant attachment

Timestamps
00:00 – Recovering Lost Self Connection
00:54 – What Does Struggling With Self Connection Look Like?
03:28 – 1. Introspection
05:04 – Heal From a Breakup Course Promo
05:41 – 2. Embodiment
07:47 – 3. Identity
09:51 – Conclusion

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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In this deeply personal and vulnerable episode, Thais Gibson shares her long and complex physical health journey from chronic illness in childhood to discovering root causes as an adult through functional and integrative approaches.

This conversation is not about giving medical advice. It’s about sharing lived experience, connecting the dots between nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and physical well-being, and helping others feel less alone if they’ve been struggling with unexplained or chronic symptoms.

Thais opens up about her childhood health challenges, early adulthood, and the physical symptoms that persisted even after deep emotional and psychological healing. She shares what led her to explore functional medicine, advanced testing, and lifestyle changes and how understanding her body transformed her quality of life.

This episode explores:
Growing up with chronic illness and allergies
How early life experiences shaped resilience and self-awareness
The role of functional medicine and root-cause testing
Discoveries around mold exposure, inflammation, and nervous system health
What ultimately supported her healing journey
This is a story about listening to your body, advocating for yourself, and integrating mind–body healing.

 

Key Takeaways
Chronic symptoms can become “normal” when they start early in life
Emotional healing and physical healing often need to happen together
Functional and root-cause approaches helped uncover missing pieces
Regulation, awareness, and self-support play a role in overall well-being
You’re not broken, sometimes your body is asking to be understood

 

Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
00:55 – Thais’ Physical Health Journey
03:46 – Thais’ Childhood and Youth
09:00 – Thais’ Early Adult Life
17:22 – Getting Into Functional Medicine
21:15 – Heal From a Breakup Course Promo
21:51 – Mycotoxin and Organic Acids Test Results
31:39 – Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
34:41 – What Helped Thais Heal
43:38 – Final Takeaways

 

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/

Embrace Breakthroughs With The “Heal From a Breakup” Course. Free for Life With a 7-Day Trial

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If you have a Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style, healing doesn’t mean forcing yourself to become someone you’re not — it means learning a new, healthier relationship with vulnerability, emotions, and connection.

In this video, Thais Gibson shares 5 hard but deeply transformative truths that can support dismissive avoidant healing, reduce emotional shutdown, and help you build relationships that feel safe, balanced, and sustainable.

These truths may feel uncomfortable at first, but once integrated, they can fundamentally change how you experience intimacy, self-worth, and connection.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
Why emotions are not something to avoid, but powerful feedback tools
How vulnerability creates safety, not weakness
Why receiving support is a key part of healthy interdependence
How compromise strengthens connection without self-abandonment
Why being imperfect does not mean you are defective

⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 – These Truths Can Transform Your Life
00:35 – 1. Your Feelings Are Your Friends
02:03 – 2. Vulnerability Is Healthy and Necessary
03:10 – 3. Leaning on Someone and Receiving Support From Them Is Not Weak
04:34 – Ending Codependency Course Promo
04:55 – 4. It Is Important to Make Concessions in the Form of Compromises
05:37 – 5. It Is Normal and Human to Have Flaws

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/

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-01-21-26&el=podcast

When someone won’t commit, it can trigger anxiety, self-doubt, and the urge to chase or over-explain.

But a securely attached person doesn’t beg, pressure, or abandon themselves.

They respond with clarity, boundaries, and self-trust, and that response changes everything.

🎥 Episode Summary

In today’s video, Thais Gibson breaks down exactly how a securely attached person responds when a dismissive avoidant won’t commit, and how you can reverse engineer that response in your own healing journey.

You’ll learn the key differences in commitment timelines across attachment styles, how secure individuals communicate needs without pressure or ultimatums, and how they protect their time, energy, and emotional well-being when commitment remains unclear.

This episode is essential if you:
Feel stuck waiting for someone to “decide”
Are dating an avoidant partner who won’t commit
Tend to self-silence or people-please to keep connection
Want to respond with confidence instead of anxiety

✨ Key Takeaways

✔ Why attachment styles have different commitment timelines
✔ How secure people express interest without pressure
✔ The difference between clarity and ultimatums
✔ Why secure people don’t take avoidance personally
✔ How to communicate needs while holding empathy
✔ What secure boundaries look like in real conversations
✔ Why ending codependent patterns restores self-trust

⏱ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – How A Secure Person Reacts When An Avoidant Won’t Commit
00:36 – Each Attachment Style Has A Different Expectation 
01:16 – The Anxious Preoccupied And Dismissive Avoidant Timelines
 02:01 - The Fearful Avoidant And Secure Timelines
04:07 - Not Everybody Follows the Same Expectations 
04:41 - A Securely Attached Person Would Not Take Differences Personally
05:07 - How A Secure Person Reacts When They Don’t Want To Commit
06:48 - A Secure Person Expresses Their Own Needs
08:22 - Ending Relationship Codependency and Enmeshment Promo
08:51 - How A Secure Person Communicates They Want To Commit
10:22 - A Securely Person Shows the Avoidant That There’s a Natural Consequence For Not Showing Up

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/