Patterns: Attachment and Relationships

Why do we keep doing the things we do — even when we know better?

Patterns is a new conversation series exploring the behaviours, habits and emotional loops that shape our lives. From the way we love and argue to how we work, react, avoid, control and connect, each edition takes one familiar human pattern and asks where it comes from, why we repeat it and whether we can change it.

Bringing together leading voices, experts and thinkers, Patterns is about understanding ourselves a little better — including the parts that don't always make sense.

For the first in the series we are joined by relationship expert, podcast host and author Sabrina Zohar to explore attachment, dating and the behaviours that shape the way we love and connect.

Why do we chase people who pull away? Overthink a text? Or find ourselves repeating the same relationship patterns even when we know they’re not working?

Drawing on her new book, Why Am I Like This?, Sabrina will be talking to relationship and intimacy coach David Chambers about anxious and avoidant attachment, overthinking, boundaries and why understanding our patterns might just be the first step towards changing them.