Hannah Brooks - Podcast and Blog 
Marriage Coaching for HSP

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

One of the hardest parts of being a sensitive woman in a relationship is how easy it is to feel at the effect of everything. Your partner’s tone. His mood. A comment that lingers longer than you want it to. And suddenly you’re: overthinking second-guessing feeling hurt or distant trying to “figure out” what’s going on… And without even realizing it, your focus goes entirely onto him, and what he’s doing, or what he’s not doing. And what he needs to do for you to feel be

Resentment, grievance, and blame: these are not easy things to move past in our intimate relationships, especially, when it feels like your partner has piled on many little – or big – hurts, transgressions, and wrongdoings over the course of your relationship. Resent and blame come very naturally to us as humans, so if you feel them, you are oh-so-normal. AND, they are keeping you locked out of your heart. THey are keeping you from the love you could otherwise be feeling, 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...

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