Vulnerability

Uncovering the Meaning Behind Your Relationship Patterns

What is your core conflictual relationship theme? Uncovering the meaning behind your relationship patterns Most of us pick up specific patterns of relating to others early in life. We may find ourselves facing similar dilemmas with different friends, or similar conflicts across multiple romantic relationships. However, we aren’t always able to detect these similarities as …

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Fighting Against What We Cannot Face

The Definition of Resistance The theory of resistance was forged long ago by Sigmund Freud to describe when a patient develops uncooperative behaviours during sessions. It occurs when an individual’s unconscious defenses of their ego are threatened by an external source. That external source often being therapy and the therapist themselves. Resistance doesn’t just show …

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Why Do I Need Vulnerability?

Brene Brown’s Ted Talk titled, The power of vulnerability (2010), creates a frame to consider the intersection between intimacy and vulnerability in relationships. Our patterns of interactions in relationships are powered and driven by our emotional content. In many cases the underlying root of that emotional content is locked away nicely in the subconscious and …

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