What to Do When Your Anxious Attachment Gets Triggered in Love
Apr 17, 2025
How to Stay Grounded in Love When Your Nervous System Wants to Run
By Catherine Josephine | The Love Priestess™
When you feel safe, desired, and deeply seen and then start to spiral?
That doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means your nervous system is waking up to something it didn’t know how to hold before.
So here’s a gentle guide for the woman who is doing her inner work, who has met a beautiful man, and who doesn’t want her anxious attachment to override the divine unfolding already happening.
🌹 Your Next Steps: Anchoring Into Trust and Feminine Receiving
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Name the Pattern, Then Soothe It when you Notice the Overthinking or Spiraling.
“Did I say too much? Should I pull away?”
Pause and lovingly say to yourself:
“This is my nervous system trying to protect me. But I am safe. I am wanted. I am already being met.”
You’re not wrong for having needs or feelings, but this helps you respond rather than react.
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Keep Showing Up in Your Radiance — Not in Pursuit.
Let him feel you. Do not chase him. You don’t need to remind him you exist.
Instead, post your poetry. Create Art. Sing. Dance. Share your truth. Radiate your essence.
✨ This keeps you connected to yourself, which is what magnetizes him (and everything else you desire).
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Trust His Words and His Silence.
When a man says he’s overwhelmed but still shows care, believe him. Let his absence be a reflection of his current bandwidth and not your worth.
He doesn’t need pressure. He needs presence.
💗 Your softness is not passivity. It is powerful trust in your own magnetism.
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Channel the Energy Into Your Sacred Work.
This is your moment to pour that beautiful, overflowing love into your writing, your clients, your Book of Desire Journal.
When you create from love instead of fear, you alchemize anxious energy into art and that is irresistible.
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Set the Tone Energetically and Not Through Control.
If you want more connection, create the space where connection is welcome. Send a voice note from the heart and not the hurt.
🌙 “I know you're holding a lot right now. I’m not going anywhere. Just letting you know I'm thinking of you and holding you in love. No reply needed.”
This tells him: ✨ You see him. ✨ You trust him. ✨ You’re not abandoning yourself either.
A Soft Reminder for Your Heart He’s not your source of safety. You are.
But when you stay anchored in your truth, you become the woman a man wants to come home to.
You don’t have to perform, fix, or prove anything.
You just have to stay in the frequency of the love you’re already experiencing because it’s real.
Trust how you feel.
Trust HIM.
It’s happening.
And you’re ready for it.
If you’re ready to experience love that feels safe, soulful, and secure, I offer private 1:1 coaching for women and men healing attachment wounds and calling in sacred partnership.
Book your private consultation: Consultation Call With Catherine
With tenderness and trust,
xoxo love, Catherine
The Love Priestess
© 2025 Catherine Josephine. The Love Priestess™. Love and Intimacy Coaching International LLC. All rights reserved.
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