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Marriage Coaching for HSP

One of the hardest parts of being a sensitive woman in a relationship is how easy it can be to feel at the effect of your partner—to have what's happening with him determine how you feel. His tone can leave you feeling hurt or unsettled. His distance can make you feel distant, too. His reaction can make it harder to stay open. And his affection—or lack of it—can make you feel deeply loved or painfully unimportant. And before you know it, your emotional well-being has b

Ever said something you later wished you could take back because it came out much harsher than you meant? Or blanked out in the middle of a conflict, totally forgetting what you wanted to say? Or had your partner's tone of voice affect you so badly that you still felt it hours later? If so, your nervous system is likely a big culprit. When your nervous system goes into threat mode, your brain no longer operates from its wisest, clearest place, and your inner world gets

There are two parts of you that affect your marriage more than you realize – really always deeply shaping things between you and your partner. So you want to really understand them – especially as an HSP. Together they are always deeply influencing how you feel in your marriage, and how you are interacting with your partner, for better or for worse. Although you can—and should—look at these two parts of yourself individually, they're are deeply interconnected and constantly

What if the problem isn't that the love in your relationship has faded—but that your nervous system and biochemistry is making it hard to experience the love that's there? We tend to think of connection as something that happens between two people. But connection is also an experience happening inside your body, and your internal state can profoundly affect how available you are to experience it. In this episode, we’re looking at oxytocin—the hormone involved in bonding, atta

One of the most powerful ways to change your marriage begins with understanding how emotions spread in intimate relationships – and learning to use this on purpose to create an upward healing cycle between you and your spouse. Because just as fear, reactivity, and self-protection are contagious in relationships– bouncing back and forth between partners– So is safety. Using this intentionally changes everything inside you, and then everything between you and your partner for t

It’s one of those days where you feel a distance, a tension, or an awkwardness between you. After tiptoeing around it for a good while, hoping it will lift, you finally just ask your partner: "Are we okay?" or "Do you still love me?" or "Are you upset with me?" And he says: "Sweetheart. We're totally fine." Maybe puts his arm around you. You immediately feel relieved. The knot in your stomach loosens. Your spirits feel lighter. Calmer. But then the next day… he’s al

If you often feel triggered, hurt by, or really impacted by what’s happening in your relationship, this episode will help you understand why–and what to do to leave this painful pattern behind. We’re talking about Emotional Agency — the master skill that allows highly sensitive people to guide their emotional experience, instead of being run by it. Most highly sensitive people were never taught how to work with their inner world in a way that creates real emotional steadiness

If you’ve ever read a marriage book, heard some relationship advice that seemed logical, or sat in a therapy session and thought, "Why is this so much harder for me than it seems to be for everyone else?" —there is a biological reason for that. Today we dive into what that is, and why a lot of traditional marriage advice just doesn't work for us as highly sensitive people. The truth is, most marriage advice does not take into account the HSP reality – our highly sensitive ne

If there was one thing I could shout out from the rooftops right now to help all intimate relationships –and really all of humankind and...

One of things many of my clients feel the deepest despair about is that they feel stuck rehashing the same old painful reactive patterns...