🎙️ Episode 35 – Why Your Relationships Keep Falling Apart (Attachment Styles Explained)

Why do your relationships always seem to blow up or fizzle out? Why does closeness feel so hard—or even scary?

In this powerful episode of the Lion Counseling Podcast, Mark Odland and Zack Carter unpack how your attachment style shapes the way you love, fight, and even parent. Whether you're the one who always pulls away or the one who clings too tightly, there’s a reason—and there’s a path forward.

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🔍 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• What your attachment style actually is (and how it was formed)
• Why avoidant men often feel emotionally shut down—and what to do about it
• How anxious attachment shows up in dating, marriage, parenting, and even sex
• The surprisingly boring truth about secure attachment—and why it works
• Real-life examples from pop culture and media (Batman, Donkey, John Wick, Superman!)
• How childhood wounds show up in adult relationships—and how to heal them
• 5 practical steps to move from avoidant or anxious to secure
• How to stop sabotaging connection and start building trust
• What therapy and coaching can do to rewire your pattern

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Hosted by Mark Odland, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Zack Carter, Counselor & Coach, the Lion Counseling Podcast helps men escape the cages that hold them back and become the lions they were created to be. We talk masculinity, trauma, identity, faith, relationships, and purpose—with humor, truth, and grit.

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