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Attachment Wounds & Relationship Triggers Guide | Trauma-Informed Relationship Support in Missouri

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Learn why you get triggered, anxious, or shut down in relationships. Missouri therapist explains attachment wounds and offers tools to feel secure and connected.

Struggling with emotional reactions in your relationship — like shutting down, spiraling, or feeling “too much”?


This free guide helps you understand why you react the way you do by uncovering the attachment wounds beneath your triggers. Whether you identify with anxious, avoidant, or mixed patterns, this resource gently walks you through naming your triggers, regulating your nervous system, and beginning to feel safer and more connected with yourself and your partner.

Written by Mattracea Wendleton, a Missouri-based trauma and attachment therapist, this guide blends attachment science with practical tools you can use immediately — even if your partner isn’t ready for therapy.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

  • Identify your most common emotional triggers

  • Understand your core attachment wounds (abandonment, engulfment, inadequacy, or unworthiness)

  • Calm your nervous system during conflict or disconnection

  • Return to clarity, connection, and emotional safety

  • Begin rebuilding secure attachment from the inside out

Perfect for individuals or couples wanting deeper clarity, improved communication, and healthier emotional patterns.

This guide was created by a Missouri-based trauma and attachment therapist serving clients across Missouri through secure online counseling. Individuals in Bolivar, Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, and surrounding areas can use this resource as a starting point for understanding their attachment patterns and improving connection in current relationships.

Learn why you get triggered, anxious, or shut down in relationships. Missouri therapist explains attachment wounds and offers tools to feel secure and connected.

Struggling with emotional reactions in your relationship — like shutting down, spiraling, or feeling “too much”?


This free guide helps you understand why you react the way you do by uncovering the attachment wounds beneath your triggers. Whether you identify with anxious, avoidant, or mixed patterns, this resource gently walks you through naming your triggers, regulating your nervous system, and beginning to feel safer and more connected with yourself and your partner.

Written by Mattracea Wendleton, a Missouri-based trauma and attachment therapist, this guide blends attachment science with practical tools you can use immediately — even if your partner isn’t ready for therapy.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

  • Identify your most common emotional triggers

  • Understand your core attachment wounds (abandonment, engulfment, inadequacy, or unworthiness)

  • Calm your nervous system during conflict or disconnection

  • Return to clarity, connection, and emotional safety

  • Begin rebuilding secure attachment from the inside out

Perfect for individuals or couples wanting deeper clarity, improved communication, and healthier emotional patterns.

This guide was created by a Missouri-based trauma and attachment therapist serving clients across Missouri through secure online counseling. Individuals in Bolivar, Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, and surrounding areas can use this resource as a starting point for understanding their attachment patterns and improving connection in current relationships.

Why You're Not "Too Much" - You're Just Triggered

Do you ever feel like your emotions are "too intense" for your partner? Do you find yourself shutting down or spiraling when there's conflict, then wondering why you can't just "handle things better"?

You're not broken, oversensitive, or failing at love. What you're experiencing are likely attachment wounds - emotional patterns formed in your earliest relationships that now unconsciously drive your reactions in romantic partnerships.

The Hidden Impact of Attachment Trauma:

Most people don't realize that childhood experiences with caregivers create internal "blueprints" for how we connect, trust, and respond to emotional threats. When these blueprints include wounds around abandonment, engulfment, inadequacy, or unworthiness, they can hijack your nervous system - making you react from old fears instead of present reality.

What This Guide Will Help You Discover:

  • Why your reactions make perfect sense when you understand your attachment history

  • The difference between your triggered self and your authentic self in relationships

  • Practical nervous system tools to calm yourself before addressing relationship issues

  • The four core attachment wounds and which ones are affecting your connections

  • How to communicate your needs without feeling "too much" or being dismissed

This Isn't Just Information - It's Transformation:

Unlike generic self-help advice, this guide is grounded in attachment theory and trauma-informed approaches. You'll learn to recognize your patterns with compassion rather than criticism, and develop real skills for creating the security and connection you've been craving.

Perfect for:

  • Individuals who feel emotionally "too much" in relationships

  • Partners of someone with attachment wounds

  • Anyone tired of the same relationship patterns repeating

  • People preparing for or currently in therapy

You deserve to feel secure, understood, and confident in your emotional needs. This guide is your first step toward that transformation.

Have questions? Reach out! mattracea@serenitytherapyservices.org
Ready to take the next step and start counseling? Fill out the form in the website: https://www.serenitytherapyservices.org

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