The Thais Gibson Podcast

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If you crave deep connection but feel stuck in cycles of push-pull, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion… this isn’t because you’re broken, it’s because your nervous system learned to associate love with threat.

And the good news?
That conditioning can be rewired.

🎥 Episode Summary

In today’s episode, Thais Gibson breaks down 5 clear signs a Fearful Avoidant attachment style may not yet be ready for a healthy relationship and what must shift internally before secure love can truly thrive.

You’ll learn how unresolved core wounds, nervous system dysregulation, and unconscious relationship patterns can keep pulling you into chaos, intensity, or emotional burnout — even when you deeply want stability and closeness.

Most importantly, this episode shows you what healing actually requires, so you can stop repeating old patterns and start choosing relationships from safety, clarity, and self-trust.

✨ Key Takeaways

✔ Why hot-and-cold patterns signal unresolved attachment conditioning
✔ How “testing” replaces healthy communication for Fearful Avoidants
✔ Why intensity can feel like chemistry when your nervous system is used to chaos
✔ How jumping to worst-case conclusions keeps you emotionally dysregulated
✔ The importance of knowing and communicating your needs before committing to a relationship
✔ Why nervous system regulation alone isn’t enough — and what must be rewired underneath

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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If you keep feeling confused, disconnected, or emotionally shut out in relationships or you find yourself attracted to people who pull away when things get close, this episode is for you.

Avoidant patterns aren’t about not caring.
They’re about a nervous system that learned closeness wasn’t safe.

And that pattern can be healed.

🎥 Episode Summary

In today’s episode, Thais Gibson breaks down 5 major signs a Dismissive Avoidant attachment style may not yet be ready for a healthy relationship, and how to recognize whether real healing is actually taking place.

This episode is especially powerful if you’re:

Dating someone avoidant and unsure how to proceed

Recovering from repeated emotional distancing or shutdown

Or working on your own avoidant patterns and want to know what to heal next

You’ll learn how avoidant strategies like emotional distancing, intellectualized vulnerability, conflict avoidance, and ambiguous commitment are rooted in unhealed core wounds and what must shift internally for secure, lasting connection to be possible.

✨ Key Takeaways

✔ Why “needing space after closeness” is an avoidant strategy, not independence
✔ How low-maintenance connection replaces emotional intimacy
✔ Why vulnerability gets intellectualized instead of felt
✔ The role unresolved core wounds play in nervous system shutdown
✔ How conflict avoidance blocks long-term relationship safety
✔ Why ambiguous commitment is a sign of emotional unavailability
✔ How minimizing your needs creates long-term relational harm

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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When Grief Feels Overwhelming, You Don’t Have to Go Through It Alone.

Grief can feel heavy, confusing, and isolating especially when you lose a beloved pet or someone who mattered deeply to you. In this deeply personal and compassionate masterclass, Thais Gibson shares her real time experience of grief after losing her dog Simba, while walking you through a grounded, somatic framework to help you process loss in a healthy, supportive way.

Episode Summary
This episode isn’t about “getting over” grief; it’s about learning how to be with it, understanding what’s really happening in your mind and body, and gently moving through the healing process with self-attunement, compassion, and clarity.

In this video, Thais explores what grief truly is not just the loss of physical presence, but the loss of the needs, identities, and parts of ourselves that were expressed in relationship to those we loved. Drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, and somatic processing, she introduces five powerful pillars to help you move through grief without suppressing emotions or getting stuck in painful stories.

Whether you’re grieving a pet, a loved one, or another meaningful loss, this episode offers tools you can return to again and again especially during moments when grief resurfaces unexpectedly.

Key Takeaways
• Why grief is love with nowhere to go and how to give it a new place
• How to practice self-attunement when emotions feel intense or overwhelming
• The role attachment wounds and subconscious stories play in prolonging grief
• How to identify the needs your relationship met and meet them in new ways
• Why grief isn’t just about who you lost, but who you got to be with them
• How to stay connected to memories in a healthy, grounding way without getting stuck in the past

Timestamps
00:00 – Processing Grief
00:57 – Losing a Pet
04:27 – The Backstory: Simba
10:37 – Grief Is the Void Left by Non-Physical Loss
12:39 – Grief as the Mind & Body’s Response to Loss
14:22 – 1. Practice Self-Attunement
21:29 – 2. Examine the Stories You Tell Yourself
28:04 – Could There Be Another Truth?
30:22 – Somatic Course Promo
30:42 – We Attach to the Needs They Met
36:46 – 3. Identify Needs & Meet Them in New Ways
37:53 – 4. Express the Most Sacred Parts of Yourself
44:23 – 5A. Healthy Connection Without Living in the Past
47:23 – 5B. Healthy, Sustained Connection
50:02 – 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
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/

Get the Somatic Attachment Healing Course Free for Life When You Start Your 7‑Day Trial of the All-Access Pass.

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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 episode, 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/

Get the Somatic Attachment Healing Course Free for Life When You Start Your 7‑Day Trial of the All-Access Pass.

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If you feel like your Dismissive Avoidant partner is slowly disappearing — saying less, reaching out less, and emotionally checking out, you’re not imagining it.

Most Dismissive Avoidants don’t leave with a dramatic breakup.
They detach quietly first.

In this episode, you’ll learn the 3 clearest signs a Dismissive Avoidant is pulling away and preparing to leave, the real fear driving this behavior, and how a securely attached person responds in ways that protect their nervous system, boundaries, and self-worth.

This isn’t about chasing, over-functioning, or blaming yourself.
It’s about clarity, emotional safety, and responding from security, not panic.

🧠 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
Why Dismissive Avoidants often detach before they leave
How reduced bids for connection signal emotional exit
Why focusing on “flaws” helps avoidants justify distancing
The neuroscience behind avoidant deactivation
What a secure response sees early and acts on calmly
How exit narratives form long before a breakup happens

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – 3 Signs A Dismissive Avoidant Is Pulling Away & About to Leave
00:58 – 1. They Stop Making Bids for Connection
03:36 – 2. They Vocalize Flaws in the Relationship
05:07 – The Neuroscience Behind Dismissive Avoidant Detachment
06:05 – Key Pillars for a Secure Relationship Promo
06:25 – 3. They Begin to Build an Exit Narrative

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/