In Dating Again: What Does Healthy Look Like? Part One, I discuss the importance of taking time to heal from abusive relationship(s). If you want to have healthier relationships moving forward, it’s essential that you identify and resolve the issues that contributed to making unhealthy choices in past relationship partners. Do you understand your old […]
Trauma Bond vs. Healthy Bond: Emotional Intensity vs. Emotional Intimacy [Meme]
When looking for potential love relationships, many of my codependent and trauma bond-prone clients confuse emotional intensity and emotional intimacy. There’s a big difference. Emotional intensity is like a wildfire and emotional intimacy is like a hearth fire. One destroys lives; the other can warm your soul. Oftentimes, dysfunctional, toxic and/or personality disordered individuals are highly […]
Dating Again, Part 1: What Does Healthy Look Like?
After ending a relationship with an emotionally immature, unstable, self-absorbed, selfish, narcissist, borderline, or garden variety jerk, many people wonder how soon is too soon to begin dating again. Probably not as soon as you’d like. I recommend clients don’t immediately jump back into the dating pool for several reasons. First, you need to heal […]
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