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What happens when the person who’s always been “the independent one” realizes that independence has quietly become emotional armor?

In today’s episode, I sit down with Aria - a former client - for an honest, heart-opening conversation about her journey from emotional avoidance to authentic intimacy.

For much of her dating life, Aria attracted people who weren’t able to be truly available for the love and intimacy she craved. In addition, her unavailability showed up in various ways in her love life. But beneath that strength lived a deep fear of vulnerability, dependence, and letting herself truly be seen.

Together, we explore how avoidant attachment can subtly block love — even when someone deeply wants partnership - and what becomes possible when the heart learns that closeness can be safe.

In this conversation, Aria shares:

✨ How avoidant tendencies showed up in her dating and relationships
✨ The unconscious strategies she used to protect herself from intimacy
✨ What shifted when she learned to soften, open, and share even more truthfully in relationship
✨ How our work together helped her rewire old attachment patterns
✨ What “available love” actually looks like now in her life
✨ The difference between intellectual understanding and embodied healing
✨ How opening her heart changed not only her dating life - but her relationship with herself

This episode is especially powerful for anyone who:

•⁠ ⁠Identifies as emotionally independent but struggles with deep intimacy
•⁠ ⁠Tends to pull away when relationships get real
•⁠ ⁠Is attracted to partners who want more closeness than they can tolerate or frequently attracts commitment phobes or emotionally unavailable people
•⁠ ⁠Has done personal growth work but still feels blocked in love
•⁠ ⁠Wants partnership — yet fears losing autonomy or getting hurt

Aria’s story is a beautiful reminder that healing avoidant attachment isn’t about becoming “needier” or giving up independence — it’s about expanding our capacity to receive love without shutting down.

If you’ve ever wondered whether secure, emotionally available love is possible for you…
this conversation will speak straight to your heart.

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To apply to work with Maya go to: empowerlove.us/breakthrough

To find out about Aria’s work in the world: lisabeem.com

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In this powerful and timely episode of Rewire Your Attachment Style, Maya Diamond sits down with long-time friend and colleague Mischa Byruck, a Sexual Integrity Coach who helps leaders, healers, and public figures transform conflict, harm, and callouts into meaningful change.

Together, they unpack what sexual integrity really means - beyond consent and explore how power dynamics, trauma responses, and emotions shape our most intimate interactions.

If you’ve ever wondered how to navigate attraction, consent, and power in a conscious way - or how to repair trust after harm - this conversation offers profound insight, humility, and embodied wisdom.

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🧭 In This Episode, We Explore:

• Mischa’s personal and professional journey into accountability and harm reduction
• What power really is and why we all have it, whether we realize it or not
• The subtle and overt ways people can fall out of sexual integrity
• Why consent alone isn’t enough to create safety and trust
• The key pillars of sexual integrity
• How kink makes power dynamics explicit and what we can learn from that
• Helpful wisdom about how to navigate attraction, power dynamics, leadership, and sex.
• Understanding trauma responses like freeze and fawn, and how they impact boundary-setting
• How to receive feedback without collapsing in shame
• Apologies and how to effectively navigate them

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🌹 About Mischa Byruck

Mischa Byruck is a Sexual Integrity Coach specializing in accountability and harm reduction in the aftermath of accusations, callouts, and cancellations. He has supported hundreds of high-profile figures - including CEOs, celebrities, and prominent teachers - to turn conflict into meaningful transformation.

He’s the Consent Education Partner of Bonobo Network, Accountability Partner of The Consent Academy, and consultant to organizations like ISTA, Kink.com, DanceSafe, and Sacred Sons. Mischa holds a certificate in Somatic Trauma Therapy from The Embody Lab, a BA from Columbia, and an MPA from NYU.

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🌿 Connect with Mischa

• https://www.evolve.men
• IG : @mischabyruck

✨ Connect with Maya

If this episode inspired you, explore more at empowerlove.us, or connect with Maya on Instagram at @mayadiamond.empowerlove

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Welcome to another episode of Rewire Your Attachment Style! In this insightful conversation, host Maya Diamond welcomes Rachel Kaplan to the show. Rachel is here to share her expertise on emotional healing and how tuning into your feelings can help you heal, take responsibility for your feelings in relationships, and create greater emotional health.

Rachel Kaplan is a licensed psychotherapist with nearly two decades of experience. She’s the creator and host of the acclaimed podcast The Healing Feeling Sh*t Show, and the author of Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go: Your Guide to Emotional Resilience and Lasting Self-Love. Rachel’s passion for emotional healing began with a personal tragedy in her teens, when she lost her first love at age 14 – a loss that set her on a 25-year journey to understand and heal emotional pain. Through her work, Rachel has developed a fun and profound method she calls “Emotional Potty Training,” teaching people how to fully feel and release their emotions to heal deep wounds and cultivate self-love.

Thank you for tuning in! This conversation with Rachel Kaplan is a powerful reminder that feeling our feelings is not only OK – it’s necessary for healing and healthy secure love.

To connect more with Rachel, you can visit her website: thefeelingsmovement.com and check out her new book Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go for a deeper dive into her emotional healing method.

To work with Maya 1-1 to find out more about her signature Rewire For Love Program, go to empowerlove.us/apply to book your free love breakthrough session.

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To your healing, and see you next time!

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