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05: Overcoming Intergenerational Trauma To Create Secure Attachments with Scarlett Mulligan

Scarlett Mulligan shares the impact of attachment styles on mental health, and shares her own experience growing up with parents who had their own attachment issues, which in turn was passed on to Scarlett. Hear her story of overcoming intergenerational trauma and eventually getting to a place of internal strength and happiness.

 

Attachment styles can be at the root of many issues in our lives, and understanding them is crucial to addressing many of the issues we face and can lead to healing and positive changes. Learn the significance of understanding attachment styles and how they can impact our lives, relationships, and conflicts. 

 

Your struggles can either be a backpack weighing you down or a backbone of strength. This episode will encourage you to be mindful of your own behavior and work towards building more secure attachments.

 

 

About Scarlett: 

Scarlett Mulligan, PA-C is a nationally certified Physician Associate specializing in psychiatry. After serving 5 years in the USAF, she attended the University of Washington MEDEX Northwest program, graduating in 2005. Throughout her career in a variety of medical specialties she found mental health to be her calling. She has spent many of her adult years as a mental health client repairing the impact and disrupting the flow of intergenerational trauma. She currently resides in Clarksville, TN as the founder of Novus Behavioral Health - a group psychiatry practice. She considers her greatest achievement to be the secure attachment she has created with her two (almost adult) children.

 

 

Key Topics:

  •  [02:30] The way you’re parented influences your attachment type
  •  [04:39] The turning point in Scarlett’s life
  •  [08:55] Over-functioning 
  •  [13:30] The process of grief
  •  [19:06] Kung Fu Panda - the secret sauce of life
  •  [19:26] Overcoming a limited mindset
  •  [21:39] Preoccupied attachment style

 

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