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The Healing Path To Ending The Displacement Cycle
In the last blog 5 Signs You May Be Displacing Past Trauma Onto Your Partner, we talked about the defense mechanism of “displacement”- and...
5 Signs You May Be Displacing Past Trauma Onto Your Partner
Picture this. You’re arguing with your partner about something relatively minor. You’ve made a mistake and now things are escalating. You forgot to...
How Do We Stop Projecting & Start Owning Our Mistakes?
In my last blog, How Can You Tell If You Or Your Partner Are Projecting?, we discussed the telltale signs of the defense mechanism of “projection,”...
How Can You Tell If You Or Your Partner Are Projecting?
As human beings, we are often more complex than we realize. Our minds and hearts are intricately woven together, forming the tapestry of our...
5 Tips For Breaking The Overfunctioning/ Underfunctioning Cycle In Relationships
In my last blog- Do You Overfunction Or Underfunction In Relationships - I outlined a common relationship dynamic that can cause distress in...
10 Signs That Someone You Love Has Severe Attachment Wounding
If you’re trying to love someone with a significant trauma history, you’ve probably noticed that it’s not always easy on you- the relatively safe...
Do You Overfunction In Relationships Because Your Partner Has ADHD?
While few people name the pattern, we’ve all seen couples where one person overfunctions, and the other person underfunctions. What do we mean by...
Is Your Medical Problem Really A Marital Problem?
*My partner Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv was supposed to be delivering a TEDx talk about the topic of our next book together last week, but the tech...
Is Conflict Avoidance Making You Violate Your Integrity?
I’m preparing curriculum right now for LOVE SCHOOL, an IFS-informed community of practice intended to support those who are more securely attached...
The Importance Of Getting Your Stories Out Of Your Body & Onto The Page
Stories, especially stories about our most traumatic experiences, tend to take on a life of their own. They often run away with themselves,...
10 Tips For Times Of Transition
As I wrote in Navigating The Space Between Stories, many of us are experiencing more change, more quickly, with more uncertainty, than we’re used...
Navigating The Space Between Stories
Ever since things started opening back up again after the pandemic, I'm very aware of how much change we're all facing. We are definitely in the...