Followup post! How can we combat the brain's tendency to willfully protect itself while maintaining a...
Posts in Category "Relationship Misc."
REPOST: CPTSD relationship dynamics, explained
Thought I’d share a video with all tiers!
Let’s see “Relationships” in a visual format and understand our relationship templates that create the same dynamics over and over again… Thanks, Behavioral Science!
Guilt vs Shame, vs the Ego. Or, “Why our relationships suck.”
OKAY MY MOTHA FUCKS. Months ago in August we spoke about the challenge of apologizing, for real, with the purpose of...
Abuse Acronyms to Know: DARVO & SAPIEN
Can't wrap a year on relationships without talking abuse tactics. Let's discuss DARVO and SAPIEN - strategies to be...
BONUS ED: Sex on CPTSD pt II
BONUS EDITION: Find extra content in this version. Well hello and welcome to a surprise show, for all of us. The world...
Sex on CPTSD pt II
The world didn't end after the last post and I have more to say. Let's talk about identifying if your sexual life is...
Sex, parts, programming, and needs
So, Fuckers. We’re “wrapping up” relationships as we round out 2023. Which isn't really true, because CPTSD is so...
Sex, parts, programming, and needs
We've talked about intimacy... but not *intimacy.* Diving into sex, let's talk about childhood and adult programming...
TRANSFERENCE VIDEO!
Been working on an all new experience for you, including animated videos! Let's talk about Transference in the highest...
Emotional Transference, Displacement, Projection, and Monkey-barring
"You should do an episode on Transference," one of y'all said. I resisted, until "Displacement" became a point of...
Ignoring Red Flags; a real life nightmare
Alert: change in programming! And I'll tell ya why. This month we talked about the real difficulty in starting healthy...
BONUS Video! Visualizing “relationship dynamics”
"Relationship" can seem like a nebulous cloud. So let's keep breaking it down. How can we understand...
Workbook! Sensing “energies” in potential partners, and what it all means
Key points: (IMO) Assigning moralistic judgments ("good," "bad," "nice person") to new relational partners is not...
10.50 Sensing “energies” in potential partners, and what it all means
If the IFS approach isn’t for you, this episode might be. Let’s talk about the validity of “energy” as the biological...
BONUS Video! Interpersonal dynamics, explained by Behavioral Science
Each relationship is a learned "dynamic." Each dynamic is a series of common interactions. Each...
10.48 Extra “survival Fs” to give in relationship; Fronting and Feigning
We all know about the 4 survival Fs at this point. But how about the additional F reactions- Fronting and Feigning?...