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The Overwhelmed Brain

Emotional Intelligence for Better Relationships

Find the Right Teacher – When everything fails and nothing works out

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Have you ever listened to a motivational speaker and decided that you were going to make huge changes in your life – then a couple days after the seminar you lost all your motivation?

This has happened to me at least three times in my life. It took me several years to realize that motivation is a great short-term solution but a terrible long-term strategy.

Motivational can build you up, but where do you go when you come back down? What’s the fire underneath that needs to be burning in order for you to follow through with that huge change you want to make?  [Read more…]

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Breaking up for newbies – Enabling your own terrible relationship – Dating the emotional abuser

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Segment 1: Without a history of breakups, your first major one can seem devastating and life ending.

In this segment, I help the newbie get through all the symptoms of the first major heartbreak. [Read more…]

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The cheater who went from kind to cold when caught – Ex won’t return even after I improve – Your intuition needs closure

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Segment 1: She caught her husband cheating, he blamed her and her family for the affair.

He used to be loving and supportive. Now that he can’t get his way, he is cold and manipulative. [Read more…]

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Freeze instead of fight or flight – Learning what didn’t work with the ex – Healing the hole in your heart

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What happens when you freeze instead of fight or flee? Is there anything you can do when you simply can’t function? In the first segment I talk about the inability to move or sometimes even think when something or someone triggers you or you become stressed.

Freezing can often come from childhood when you felt like you could do nothing during a traumatic event. Learn to train yourself to stay aware of what’s happening so that the freeze doesn’t come.

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What are Guilt and Shame – Fearing Rejection and Abandonment – Solving All Your Problems

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Guilt and shame are two battles in two different dimensions: Internal and external.

Internally, you can feel guilt for something you’ve said or done. Externally, you can feel the shame by being the recipient of other people’s judging and blaming. In this episode, a listener asks me the difference between the two so I do my best to explain how I see it. [Read more…]

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