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Your partner raises their voice, just slightly, and suddenly you are not a competent adult with a mortgage and a job and opinions. You are small. Your voice changes. You either go silent or you say th...
You want to work on the pattern, but you do not know where to start looking. Was it your parents' divorce. Was it something smaller, said once, that somehow stuck harder than anything else. Most peopl...
Fifty is supposed to be the age where you have it figured out. Decades of living, a career built, relationships weathered, and still, out of nowhere, a small comment from someone lands like a blow it ...
You have probably heard of inner child work already. Maybe you have tried it, a meditation, a journaling prompt, a therapist asking you to picture yourself as a child. So when age stage healing comes ...
The relationship ends, or someone pulls away, or a friend goes quiet for a few days, and the reaction inside you is enormous, completely out of proportion to what actually happened. You know, intellec...
You knew what you needed to say, and you said the opposite. You knew where the line was, and you stepped over it anyway, to keep the peace, to keep the relationship, to keep from being too much. After...
You leave one relationship promising yourself it will be different next time, and somehow it rhymes with the last one anyway. Same kind of push and pull. Same shape of hurt showing up in a different f...
Inner child work has become a popular phrase, said often enough that it has started to lose its meaning. Which inner child? At what age? Healing what, exactly? Most people who try it speak to one gene...
You already understand the pattern intellectually. You can probably name where it started, maybe even the exact relationship, the exact year, the exact face that first taught you this was how love or ...
Do you find yourself rereading a text message three times, searching for a shift in tone that might mean something is wrong, long after the person who sent it has moved on with their day?
Anxious ...
Have you noticed that the people you fall hardest for are often the ones who can give you the least?
You keep attracting emotionally unavailable partners because some part of you learned early that l...
