Feeling challenged by staying in your body during sex is a challenge with staying in the present moment. The mind is great for predicting or planning the future, or ruminating on the past, but it’s […]
What is a codependency triangle? A codependency triangle is also known as a drama triangle. It’s a model developed by Dr. Stephen Karpman in the 1960s to describe a pattern of roles that he saw […]
Do you feel like you’re sometimes battling against parts of your personality? Maybe you have some people-pleasing tendencies that you know don’t serve you, or you hate how emotional you get when you need to […]
Being unable to feel into yourself and your body cuts you off from many things. It makes pleasure difficult to really feel, with sexual pleasure often reduced to a very narrow experience that relies primarily […]
Being vulnerable with someone you care about, for most of us, feels a little uncomfortable. When we share what’s really on our minds and hearts, when we talk about our fears and resentments, when we […]
It feels sometimes as though new relationships are where the most difficult feelings come up. You know the other person well enough to really care, but you haven’t yet built a foundation of trust that […]
Ok, so you’ve identified that you’re a people-pleaser. You’ve noticed a pattern of feeling frustrated in your relationships (whether romantic or platonic – it can show up everywhere) because you fail to communicate your wants […]
With all the awareness of how important it is to know your boundaries and communicate them, one challenge I see a lot in my coaching practice is how to set them without seeming mean or […]
In my experience of open relationships, jealousy often stems from comparison. Do you find that you compare yourself with your partners’ exes, other lovers, or even their friends? Does it bring up a feeling of […]
Do you ever end up in a situation where you’ve agreed to something that isn’t feeling good any more? Maybe you said yes because you thought it’s what you wanted, or because you thought it’s […]