Attachment Wounds: How Childhood Trauma Fuels Addiction and Relationship Patterns with Shanenn Bryant - Episode 90
Release Date: 03/21/2025
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info_outlineIn this eye-opening episode of the Why Intervention Podcast, host Christopher Doyle interviews Shanenn Bryant, pattern transformation expert and founder of Top Self, who reveals the hidden connections between childhood experiences and adult relationship patterns.
Guest’s Info
Shanenn Bryant helps women demolish their patterns and dominate their future. As a Pattern Transformation Expert and founder of Top Self, she bridges the gap between attachment theory and real-world transformation, showing women how to recognize and transform patterns that limit both their personal and professional lives.
Combining her certification in Integrated Attachment Theory with nearly a decade of corporate Learning and Development experience, Shanenn demonstrates why "conscious seeing leads to conscious being." Host of the 2.5% globally ranked podcast Top Self, she's helped thousands of women transform their relationship with themselves and others by understanding the science behind their stories.
Shanenn brings a unique blend of professional expertise and personal insight to her work. She demonstrates how the same patterns that show up in relationships often appear in professional settings, helping women create lasting transformation in all areas of life.
Through speaking engagements, workshops, and her podcast, she's on a mission to help women move from old patterns to personal power.
Highlights
- The shocking truth about why anxious and avoidant people fall in love– and the unconscious dance that keeps them locked in painful cycles
- The "relationship land mine" hiding in children of alcoholics – why growing up with addiction creates a dangerous attachment style that sabotages love just when it starts feeling safe
- Why "trying harder" never works – Shanenn's personal revelation about why willpower alone couldn't stop her jealousy (and why addicts can't just "stop using")
- The hidden "core wounds" driving your relationships– uncover what's really happening when you keep choosing partners who can't love you back
- The surprising reason secure relationships often feel "boring" – and how your brain creates chaos when things get too calm
- The BTEA method– a powerful technique to trace your triggered behaviors back to their original childhood wounds
- How Shanenn overcame crippling jealousy – the turning point that saved her marriage after 8 years of struggle
- Why your brain is designed to confirm your worst beliefs – and the simple reprogramming technique that can permanently change your patterns
- The unexpected way Shanenn healed her relationship with her alcoholic father – after decades of estrangement
Listen as Christopher and Shanenn share personal experiences and professional insights that will transform how you understand both yourself and the addicted loved ones in your life.
Links and Resources from this Episode
- https://whyintervention.com/
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- https://www.instagram.com/whyintervention/
- Connect with Shanenn Bryant
- https://www.topself.com/
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