We explore how early attachment wounds can lead to love addiction and toxic relationships, and we share practical tools to build secure connection from the inside out. Sherry Gaba offers clear signs of toxicity, explains trauma bonds and love bombing, and outlines somatic ways to heal.

• how insecure attachment forms and drives partner choice
• why love bombing hooks the nervous system
• signs you are in a toxic relationship
• jealousy as a symptom of insecurity and past betrayal
• difference and overlap between codependency and love addiction
• somatic, polyvagal, and parts work for self-regulation
• breaking trauma bonds and pacing intimacy
• transgenerational trauma and epigenetics as context
• resources, books, and next steps for support

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