I Love You Keep Going with George Haas
Episodes
IPF vs. IFS: The Difference Between the Two Within an Attachment Repair Lens
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What are the differences between these two interventions, and how is attachment repair impacted by each approach? Is one intervention more effective d...
Grounding in Uncertainty: Meditation for Collective Anxiety
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Guided reflections and discussions on using meditation to widen the window of tolerance in response to news cycles, social unrest, and existential fea...
Authoritarianism and Attachment Theory: How Hierarchical Submission Works with Insecure Attachment Strategies
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We speak upon authoritarianism, through an attachment lens, and how it emerges as a response to insecure attachment patterns, particularly those shape...
The Attempt at Approval and Connection
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about exploring how insecure attachment drives self-editing in relationships, and how meditation supports brave authenticity.Reawakeni...
Authenticity Over Approval: The Path from Pretense to Presence
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how insecure attachment drives self-editing in relationships, and how meditation supports brave authenticity.Join us in Meditation x Attachm...
The Attached Society: How Collective Insecurity Fuels Polarization
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment dynamics play out on a cultural scale, from tribalism and misinformation to the craving f...
Conflict Resolution and Attachment
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode George fields some requests from the group.Join us in Meditation x Attachment Level One to get to the root issues, and craft a life th...
New Year's Resolutions are Dissolving. Now what?
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can we orient toward New Year's resolutions, so that we can show ourselves more compassion, flexibility and patience? What can we anchor into ...
The Art of Staying With: Building Tolerance for Vulnerability
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Explore how secure functioning develops through the capacity to remain present with emotional intensity (your own and others’). Learn meditative tec...
When to stay in and when to leave relationships?
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do we discern when it's time to end the romantic relationship (vs. when it's appropriate to repair or reconnect)? Is here a rubric for nav...
When Love Feels Foreign: Repatterning the Body to Receive Care
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode looks at how early attachment experiences shape our ability to let in love. How does Metta practice and other techniques help re-teach th...
Boundaries Without Walls: The Middle Way of Connection
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to set boundaries without cutting people off? What can we learn from Buddhist non-attachment and healthy relational boundaries, in n...
Safety Before Insight: How to go Deeper in Your Meditation Practice
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the Buddhist wisdom of grounding and establishing inner safety in order to walk the insight meditation path, and how this parallels attachm...
Reflecting Without Regret: Letting the Past Year Be What It Was
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we look back at the past year with honesty, compassion, and non-judgment? This episode explores mindful reflection practices and an approach on...
Intention, Not Resolution: Setting Attachment-Informed Goals for the New Year
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why traditional goal-setting often fails for those with attachment wounds, and how to set intentions that align with your nervous system, values, and ...
Parenting and Intergenerational Repair
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How repairing your own attachment affects the way you show up for children or those you nurture.👉🏼 Join us LIVE for our Family Archaeology Half-...
Attachment & Spiritual Bypassing
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How people sometimes use meditation to avoid intimacy, and how to re-engage relationally while maintaining practice.Try our free video resource "...
Anxious Preoccupied Attachment: Play As the Portal for Attachment Repair
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What qualities define this attachment style (helplessness, etc) and how does this impede on your ability to play and have fun? What's the greater ...
Where Metta practice and Attachment Repair meet
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does Metta practice support attachment repair? How does this fit within the greater Mettagroup Method approach?Try our free video resource "T...
Repairing Through Relationship
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why attachment wounds heal best in safe relational contexts (mentorship, IPF, romantic, community), not in isolation and how it plays out. Try our fre...
Getting Your Needs Met: How does each attachment strategy navigate needs?
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do different Attachment strategies go about getting their needs met?Try our free video resource "The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance &qu...
The Earthquake of Abandonment Terror: How Disorganized People Experience This (and How to Overcome It)
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our series on Abandonment Terror and focus on Disorganized People experience it. Try our free video resource "The Main Signs of Attac...
The Earthquake of Abandonment Terror: How Preoccupied People Experience This (and How to Overcome It)
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our series on Abandonment Terror and focus on Preoccupied People experience it. Try our free video resource "The Main Signs of Attach...
The Earthquake of Abandonment Terror: How Dismissing People Experience This (and How to Overcome It)
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is this common phenomenon? How does each attachment strategy orient toward abandonment terror? How should you approach overcoming it, based on yo...
Attachment in Spiritual Practice: Transference, Projection & the Teacher Relationship
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George addresses how attachment styles shape how we relate to spiritual teachers, mentors, and even the “Self”—a nuanced look at attachment in d...
Working with Disorganized Attachment: The Push-Pull Cycle
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We focus on the complex and painful inner conflict of disorganized attachment—wanting closeness but fearing it—and how mindfulness can support reg...
How Avoidantly Attached People Experience Intimacy
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We unpack the shutdown, distance, and “flight” strategies avoidant people use—plus how to build safe emotional intimacy without overwhelm.Lookin...
Attachment and Dependency: What’s the Difference?
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George explores the fine line between healthy interdependence and codependency, especially for anxious types seeking closeness and discusses how codep...
Inner Child Work with the Mettagroup Method
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George discusses techniques for inner child work within the context of the Mettagroup Method, including visualization meditation, Metta practice, Idea...
When Only One Person in a Relationship Does Attachment Work
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A common question in our work is what happens when only one person in a relationship decides to do work on their attachment strategies. What opportuni...
How Early Childhood Experiences Affect Authenticity
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From childhood beginnings as a "Bumble of Joy" to the manifestations in later life attachment strategies, a walk through how early experienc...
Getting to the Root of Authenticity
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does each attachment strategy impact one's relationship with being authentic? What's the bigger impact on exploration? Join George Haas as...
Signs of Attachment Disturbance & How to Spot Them
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deep dive into early indicators, how they manifest in adulthood, and when meditation‑based interventions are essential .Join George Haas as he exp...
Origin Story: How did the Mettagroup Method come to be?
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
How to Navigate Conflict and Difficult People: An Attachment Theory Perspective
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
How to Actually Be 'Yourself'
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
Hypervigilance and Attachment Theory
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
The Glow: How to Know When Your Attachment Disturbance is Choosing Romantic Partners
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
How to Identify and Heal from Emotional Enmeshment: An Attachment Theory Perspective
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
The Daily Practice: Earning Secure Attachment
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
What Role Do Relationships Play In Healing Attachment Wounds?
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
How does Attachment Style Change Over Time?
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many wonder if they’re "stuck" in a pattern or if healing and growth are possible.Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of atta...
How to Remap Your Native Attachment Conditioning (and Why It's More Important Now than Ever to Prevent Or Move Beyond Freeze Mode)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of attachment theory and meditation, and the path to live a more meaningful life. If you’re interes...
An Attachment Perspective: How to Navigate Rejection Sensitivity
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of attachment theory and meditation, and the path to live a more meaningful life. If you’re interes...
An Attachment Perspective: How to End Perfectionism + Validation-Seeking Behavior
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of attachment theory and meditation, and the path to live a more meaningful life. If you’re interes...
How to Foster Secure Attachment in Children (Even If You Weren’t Raised Securely)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of attachment theory and meditation, and the path to live a more meaningful life. If you’re interes...
How to Stop Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Partners
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of attachment theory and meditation, and the path to live a more meaningful life. If you’re interes...
Attachment Healing Practices: Meditative Tools to Feel Safe in Relationships
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join George Haas as he explores the intersection of attachment theory and meditation, and the path to live a more meaningful life. If you’re interes...
How Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol Works
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the Ideal Parent-Figure Protocol and how does it work! Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma talk and extend...
Tips for Emotionally Regulating During Chaotic Times
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Times have been quite difficult lately and full of chaos. How can we find regulation and use our practice for stability? Join us live online ...
Importance of a Secure Base For Exploration
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is a secure base and what does it mean for your primary and secondary exploration?Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma talk...
How to Navigate Fear of Abandonment in Romantic Relationships
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have been talking about work relationships so now let's get in to Romantic Relationships!Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma tal...
Earned Security and Leadership
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the aspects of earned security that impact one's leadership skills? What aspects of insecure attachment strategies negative impact leader...
How to Improve Collaboration Skills with Colleagues + Clients
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Workplace relationships are real relationships. What can you do to improve them so you can live a healthier life? Join us live online every Thursday ...
The Impact of Attachment Disturbances on Career or Professional Relationships
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does your position in the satisfaction of the hierarchy of needs determine your ability and success at exploration? Join us live online every ...
What Changes When You Earn Security?
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it look like to earn security? In what ways do you change and what stays the same? Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma talk a...
What Causes A Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style?
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our look into how Attachment styles develop with a close look at Avoidant Attachment. Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma ta...
The Origins Of Preoccupied Attachment
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss how a Preoccupied Attachment develops. Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma talk and extended sit. More info a...
The Importance of Identifying Your Attachment Style
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know your Attachment Style? If you don't you may be at risk for misapplying fixes that could misguide you or exacerbate your current troubles. ...
Developing a Secure Base for Exploration
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss how you can create firm ground and solid relationships from which you can safely and securely explore and engage with the w...
Main Signs of an Attachment Disturbance
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know it is an Attachment Disturbance an not something else that is causing havoc in your life? We discuss how to recognize patterns that ca...
Attachment Healing and Family Dynamics
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we do our attachment repair work, what changes can we expect or anticipate in our family dynamics? Can the family repair and experience collective ...
The Tsunami of Terrible Sadness
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our discussion from last week, we discuss the different types of things that get in the way of exploration! Join us live online every Thu...
The Earthquake of Abandonment Terror
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the upcoming holiday season and how one can navigate familial relationships or whether it is worth it to attempt to salvage relationships t...
The Activation of the Creative Self
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the common ways exploration is neglected during the early phase of life and how can these symptoms show up in adulthood? We discuss this and ...
Preoccupied People and Exploration
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you need so that your attachment system settles? We discuss strategies for Preoccupied People. 🍃Ready to go beyond attachment repair and di...
The Difference Between Self Regulation and Exploration
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever seen a young child explore there surroundings and then report back to their care-giver their findings? 🍃Ready to go beyond attachment...
Should I stay or should I go?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we discuss how to know if a relationship is healthy for you and how to leverage attachment repair to navigate work challenges. 🍃Ready to go ...
5 Reasons to Finally Heal Your Attachment
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why should you heal your attachment? Is it worth the effort? What will it look like to have achieved this? We discuss this and more on this week's epi...
You weren't encouraged to explore in early development. Now what? Part 2.
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue last week's discussion on exploration and how one can learn how to explore late in life. Download our free online video resource ...
You weren't encouraged to explore in early development. Now what? Part 1.
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss exploration and how one can learn how to explore late in life. Download our free online video resource &qu...
How to Know if You’re Being Too Needy
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss the attachment theory perspective on 'neediness' and how to tell if you are being needy or If your needs are right-...
When 'having it all' feels empty. What gives? Pt. 2
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our discussion on living a fulfilling meaningful life! Half-Day Virtual Retreat: Exploration A Deep Dive into Primary and Secondary Explo...
When 'having it all' feels empty. What gives? Pt. 1
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We unpack this phenomenon and define primary vs. secondary exploration. We discuss different types of attachment strategies that lean more toward seco...
The Dangers Of Rushing Into A Relationship
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to wait to commit? What are you looking for during that time? What are the normal tendencies of rushing in and why are they detrimen...
Attachment in the Workplace
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss signs of anxious attachment in the career or workplace context. What are common beliefs, behaviors and phenomena that come up? What challen...
The Earthquake and The Tsunami (On Abandonment and Terrible Sadness)
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Earthquake and the Tsunami of Terrible Sadness: 3 Best Practices for Weathering the Storm and Resiliently Navigating the Attachment Repair Journey...
Cognitive vs Procedural Practice
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the difference between a cognitive practice that is based around mentalizing and a procedural practice that relies on meditation and other rep...
How To Be In A Secure Functioning Relationship
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What constitutes a secure relationship? How does mentalizing support with this? Sign up today for Meditation x Attachment Level Two! A 6-month medita...
Demystifying Craving: How to Skillfully Address it When it Arises
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for How To Date Like A Secure Person Even If You're Not (Yet)! This is for you if... You think something is wrong with youand you want t...
Difficult Interpersonal Relationships
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you experience anxious attachment in career or workplace contexts? What are common beliefs, behaviors and phenomenon that come up? What challenges ...
Negative Persistent Emotions in the Addiction Process
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion on emotional regulation strategies learned from family systems, where unhealthy coping mechanisms like anger, sadness, or fear are modele...
Live Talk: George at Sunday Sangha
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Captured live for the Sunday Sangha series from Sangha Live, George discusses Attachment Theory in the context of Buddhist Theravada Practice, explori...
Stress, Anger & Sadness in the Addiction Process
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for the Meditation x Addiction Workshop on June 21st - click here. You’ll learn about the Meditation x Addiction approach to substa...
Craving & Urge in the Addiction Process
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Addiction can strain or damage relationships with loved ones, and repairing trust and communication can be a long and difficult process. What can one ...
Beyond Harm Reduction and Abstinence: How to Access the Next Level of Addiction Recovery
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Share about this phenomenon and specific phase of addiction recovery journey. Address other approaches to recovery and how your approach is different....
Addiction and Relapse Prevention
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to Get off the Relapse Wheel: Where Addiction, Attachment Repair and Meditation Meet We're very happy to offer a new free online video resourc...
Exploration
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
3 Things that Support Your Exploration (and 3 Things that Corrode It) Based on Your Attachment Strategy. We're very happy to offer a new free onli...
Terminally Unique: Is AI the Greatest Gift or Biggest Threat to Authenticity?
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discuss our present and future with AI, and the impact it’s having on originality. What do you forecast will happen to authenticity? How does this t...
What Stalls Your Exploration?
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does exploration differ depending on the attachment strategy? What opens the door to exploration? Exploration is at the root of what it’s all a...
Collapsing Time: From Decades of Seeking Support, to Earned Secure Attachment within 3 Years (George Haas’ story)
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Share about your transformation story. What was it like before? What kind of support did you seek before discovering attachment repair? When did every...
What To Do When Your Mother Doesn't Like You
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do when you are raised in a family without receiving love and attention from your mother? We're very happy to offer a new free onlin...
On The Entry To The Path Of Mediation
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the preliminary steps and decisions (no killing, no stealing, no harmful sexual conduct, no harsh/false speech, and no intoxicants the lead...
Enlightenment
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People in the West often want to skip steps in their practice to shorten the distance to enlightenment, but what is enlightenment and what would it me...
Genocide and Nuclear War
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss hope and agency in the face of great despair. Originally recorded 2/29/24 Sign up now for our upcoming Level One Intensive beginning Ap...
Householder Practice
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss organizing practice and building a foundation that will allow us the full value of insight that our meditation techniques can bring. Origi...
The Nature Of Forming Reality
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we understand and interact with the world around us and in what ways are we privileging certain types of information and sensory experience? O...
Finding Meaning In Exploration
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our discussion of Exploration and how Meaning can be found within it. Originally recorded 2/1/24 Sign up now for our Meditation x A...
Authenticity
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is authenticity? What is inauthenticity? And how can you live your life in a way that appropriately uses authenticity? Originally recorded 1/18/...
What Happens When Only One Person In the Couple Does the Attachment Work?
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do relationships where only one partner is putting in Attachment work playout? And what might be the cause of this imbalance? Originally recorded...