Attachment styles are not fixed traits and all individuals are capable of changing them to become healthy and secure through new experiences and skill-building.

“All people are capable of it. All people are it's it's just that most people they don't know that it's possible.”

Attachment styles are not fixed in childhood but can evolve as a person encounters new social experiences.

“first of all, this idea that the attachment style that you have as a child is the attachment style that you're going to have as an adult, that's probably one of the biggest misconceptions because the research repeatedly shows that that's not the case.”

Attachment theory provides a useful framework for understanding one's dating patterns and childhood influences, and can be changed over time.

“the research shows that when people work on it about 25% of people are able to change their attachment style”

Secure attachment in the first three years of life is the essential foundation for long-term mental health.

“Attachment security is the foundation for future mental health.”

Attachment styles formed as toddlers are strongly predictive of the attachment patterns individuals exhibit in their romantic relationships as adults.

“Now, what's interesting about this from the perspective of desire, love, and attachment is that the categorizations of children into one of these four different categories as toddlers is strongly predictive of their attachment style in romantic partnerships later in life”

Attachment theory provides a psychological framework for understanding human relationships based on early childhood bonds with primary caregivers.

“the definition of attachment theory is that it is a psychological and evolutionary um Theory concerning relationships between humans so it's basically the the theory of relationships between people essentially”