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Do you want to learn more about your attachment style? Are you excited to improve your life skills or relationships? Our blogs provide authentic, proven, and scientific advice to inspire you to learn, love, and thrive in life.

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31 AUG 2023

8 Ways to Heal a Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style

Healing your fearful avoidant attachment style is possible with 8 simple steps, including communicating your needs and releasing unrealistic expectations.

27 OCT 2023

Best Strategies for Intimacy & Sex with Dismissive Avoidants

Learn about dismissive avoidants, sex and how you can bring your relationship closer together in this extensive guide.

13 JUN 2024

Signs Your Avoidant Partner Loves You

Are you dating an avoidant but don’t if they love you? Here are the clear-cut signs that an avoidant loves you.

12 JUN 2025

Attachment Wounds: 6 Types, Their Effects & How to Heal

Struggling with trust or fear of abandonment? Learn the 6 types of attachment wounds, how they affect relationships, and steps you can take to heal.

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11 NOV 2025

The Six Stages of a Relationship: From Dating to Everlasting Love

Every relationship moves through six stages. Explore what each phase teaches every attachment style about communication, emotional safety, and long-term connection

7 NOV 2025

What Is Stonewalling? Why & How Avoidant Attachment Styles Shut Down in Relationships

Discover why stonewalling happens in relationships, how it impacts anxious, secure and avoidant partners, and ways to pause, repair, and rebuild trust.

4 NOV 2025

The Dismissive Avoidant’s Idea of a Healthy Relationship

Understand how Dismissive Avoidants experience love and connection. Learn what “healthy” means to them, what they need to feel safe, and how to create stability and closeness without pressure.

31 OCT 2025

Attachment Style Compatibility: Who’s Most Compatible (and Why It Matters)

Discover which attachment styles are most and least compatible in relationships. Learn how different attachment styles love and interact.

Thais Gibson

Thais Gibson

Thais Gibson is an author, speaker and leader in the personal development field. She has her MA, BA and is certified in over 13 different modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, NLP, Somatic Processing, and Trauma Work.

Through her academic training and client-based research, Thais has created renowned courses for personal development, growth and relationships. She is also the founder of Gibson Integrated Attachment Theory™, which empowers individuals to heal different attachments in their lives and reprogram any limiting thoughts and behaviours. These teachings have been distilled into the in-depth courses inside of The Personal Development School.

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