Sex, Love, & Relationships
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When Your Success Feels Like It Will Hurt Someone Else
Success can feel disloyal when people you love are suffering. Celebration may be interpreted as bragging, abandonment, or proof that you no longer understand them. A family may even grant status to the person who suffers most, making relief feel like leaving the group. The protective response is simple: dim the success before anyone else…
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I Have To Be Special To Get What I Want
– I am such a bitch, I can never get what I want. – I *know* I Have to be special to get what I want. – I’m powerless. – If I get something good, bad things will happen.
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Ashamed – I Am Ashamed of Myself
Shame: Something that is wrong about who I am… Guilt: Something wrong that I did… Should have… Jealousy and anger… I was so mean.
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I Hate Being Dependent on Others: A Guide to Healthy Interdependence
We all depend on (rely on) others for support. The angst comes from a few sources: 1) If someone gives me something, I owe them or they control me. (other definitions of dependent). 2) A belief in lack- if I rely on this, and it goes away, I won’t be able to stand it! 3)…
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Father Issues: Finding Safety, Respect, and Freedom Around Father’s Day
– My Father was ____, and that makes me feel _____, and I want to feel ____.
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EFT Tapping for Needing to Be Seen
All physical beings seem to require attention and care. It is our job (on the primitive survival level) as children to engage with our care givers. Human beings will contort themselves in order to get attention and recognition, in order to be seen.
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Mother Issues: Finding Calm Around Mother’s Day and More
We’ll look at some of the issues around Mother’s Day and help you tap through pain that might be in the way of having a better relationship with your mother (or at least feeling calm when you think of her).