This group is for anyone with avoidant behaviors that wish to work on those behaviors. Let’s learn about each other, ourselves, and how we can support each other on our way towards authenticity with others. This is meant to be a welcoming, social, and supportive environment as a peer-support group (as opposed to real therapy). I work in mental health but I am not a therapist. I also don’t know too much about attachment theory, but after learning about it and confronting my avoidant behaviors, I’m ecstatic to learn more, and I figured that the most radical thing to do would be to learn about it with others.
There’s a great plethora of good, free resources out there, so we may pick one and follow it as a group.
The first rule of the avoidant attachment group is to not avoid the avoidant attachment group.
I'm also taking clever group name suggestions.
"One cold winter's day, a number of porcupines huddled
together quite closely in order through their mutual warmth
to prevent themselves from being frozen. But they soon felt the
effect of their quills on one another, which made them again move apart. Now when the need for warmth once more brought them together, the drawback of the quills was repeated so that they were tossed between two evils, until they had discovered
the proper distance from which they could best .tolerate one
another." - Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)