In a world of dog-eat-dog, high performance expectations, and relationship struggles, it’s easy to see how our stress responses can be harried and frazzled. Like any animal, we are wired with the same defense capacity of fight, flight, and freeze. If we gain greater awareness to the reactions in our bodies, we can begin the […]
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Did you need to be “nice” or silent to survive? As women, most of us have been conditioned to be quiet and selfless. We have been told not to get angry and just focus on pleasing others. Or we have adapted silence as a tool for survival. If you have learned to be “nice” or silent […]
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Why does our experience of emotional pain occur over and over? What is it about certain situations that cause us to revolt or flee in terror? What is the reason negative patterns in relationships seem to repeat themselves? It is very common that most of us, at some point, have felt this way. We begin to […]
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