The Sabrina Zohar Show

204: Stop Trying to Be Picked. Start Picking Yourself. (Live Coaching)

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Show Notes

In the first ever live coaching session of The Sabrina Zohar Show, Sabrina sits down with brand ambassador and content creator Judit Moreno for an unfiltered conversation about anxious attachment, the father wound, and why so many of us keep dating emotionally unavailable men. They unpack how childhood shapes adult relationship patterns, what love bombing does to your nervous system, and why self-abandonment can feel like home when chaos was your blueprint for love.

If you have ever wondered why you keep attracting the same partner in different bodies, spiraled in anxious attachment dating cycles, or felt like you are "too much" in relationships, this episode is for you. Sabrina walks Judit through real-time inner child work, reparenting, and the powerful mindset shift from wanting to be picked to actually choosing yourself. A must listen for anyone working on attachment theory, healing childhood trauma, and breaking toxic dating patterns for good.

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Chapters:

00:00 First Live Coaching Session

05:15 Anxious Attachment & Father Wound

10:36 When Anxiety Takes Over Your Body

14:47 Be Picked vs. Picking Yourself

19:30 Toxic Love, Gaslighting & Cheating

24:38 Normalizing Chaos in Childhood

29:39 Why Chaos Feels Like Love

35:27 Who Are You Without Struggle?

41:08 Loving the Parts You Hate

46:13 Shame, Guilt & Reparenting

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