Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
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.
Segment 2: When you think your relationship is horrible and you find yourself taking up all the slack for your deadbeat other half, are you creating your own misery?
[Read more…]When you find out a lie that your partner has been holding on to for months or years, where does that leave the relationship?
How do you move on? What if it’s a minor lie and your relationship has been going great?
[Read more…]Do you fantasize, daydream, play video games or watch TV in hopes that you won’t have to deal with reality?
It’s not all bad, but anything in moderation, right? In the first segment of this episode, I talk about the benefits of skipping reality for a little bit as long as you connect with yourself in other ways.
[Read more…]Black or white thinking can lead you to be untrusting of people and the world in general.
If you’ve loved and lost and cannot figure out how to love as deeply as you once did, it could be a general distrust you carry around – seeing people as either safe or not safe. If you cannot be vulnerable, a difficult thing to achieve after pain or betrayal, you may not be able to rebuild the emptiness in your heart.
[Read more…]Does your partner corner you into a no-win situation? Do they ask you questions that make you wrong no matter what you say?
In the first segment, I talk about double binds in relationships and a couple of ways to get out of the no-win questioning that often happens in both non-abusive and abusive relationships.
For segment 2, I discuss lashing out and where it comes from. Are they new emotions that seem to originate in the moment or are they old, stored emotions that derived from a single point in time?
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