Personal Growth Insights - Blog
Cultivating Connected Relationships Through Somatic Healing and Parts Work (IFS)
How do you become resilient, so you are able to communicate vulnerably and respond appropriately in relationships, at any time? How do you work with the parts that hijack your system and repeatedly play out patterns that don't work or align with who you want to be? Read more to find out.
Are You Stuck in a Dead-End Relationship?
Why do you continue to give up so much to stay in a relationship that you know isn’t working? Even if you’re afraid to face the loss and change, sometimes the empowering path forward is to break up.
Your Sexual Desires: From Silence to Authenticity
Do you ever find yourself silently complying with your partner's sexual preferences because your desires feel too embarrassing to share?
From Giver to Receiver: Embracing Your Emotional Needs
If your emotional needs aren’t being met in your primary relationship, it could be because they weren’t a priority during your upbringing, so you imprinted that it’s normal to be a giver, not a receiver.
Learning How to Receive: Transforming Past Pain Into Present Empowerment
Do you find it difficult to let people who care about you do things for you without feeling indebted or obligated to reciprocate?
The Power of Making Specific Requests in Relationships
If you believe you’re expressing your needs to your partner, but they fail to fulfill them, it's possible that your communication isn’t as clear as you think.
How to Reclaim Boundaries to Transform Relationships
When you’re exhausted and need space to rest, but your partner wants to do activities with you, do you accommodate your partner, without even talking about it?
Breaking Free From Shame to Access Hidden Desires
If you’re upset because your partner doesn’t initiate anything meaningful for you on special occasions like your birthday, it might be because you are ashamed (and possibly unaware) of your intense desire to be celebrated, so you hide it.
Finding Your Voice for Deeper Connection in Relationship
If you're afraid to ask your partner to do/not do certain things because you think you'll come across as mean, insensitive, inconsiderate, imposing (not nice)…
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- chronic pain
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- attunement
- self-compassion
- reparenting work
- nervous system regulation
- empowerment
- relationships
- trauma healing
- receiving
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- disappointment
- boundaries
- inner child healing
- embodiment
- body signals
- making requests
- communication skills
- stress relief
- poetry
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- emotional well-being
- somatic experiencing
- consent
- emotional healing
- root cause of pain
- self-discovery