In this episode on my partner Ben’s podcast, we dive deep into our teachings on Conscious Relationship.
I loved this conversation and I’m excited to share it with you. We spoke openly about our own relationship patterns, the walls we’ve run into and what we’re learning about ourselves in the process. As a mentor and Conscious Relationship coach, I live and breathe this stuff!
This episode will be especially helpful for you if:
You’ve struggled in your relationships with the same conflict over and over
You seem to attract partners who don’t fully “show up”
You become anxious or needy in relationships
You don’t know what your relationship patterns are to begin with
You want to be in a “Conscious Relationship” but aren’t sure how to get there
You’ve had thoughts like “No one understands me, I’m too much for people or I’m not enough”
You have trauma in your history or experienced painful childhood events
You want to understand yourself and your partner(s) more deeply
You shut down during conflict, or explode with anger and need better coping mechanisms
You’re curious about “men’s groups and women’s groups and why they’re important
+ more
Topics we cover in this episode:
- Trauma and blocked emotions
- How we unconsciously act out our trauma
- “Shadow aspects” and how they show up
- Why relationships are our biggest trigger
- How relationships can offer a powerful catalyst for healing our wounds
- Discipline of children through the withdrawal of love
- Healing through expressing what hasn’t been allowed
- Needy-ness and Avoidance – two signs that you’ve got healing to do
- Deep work as a gateway to healthier relationships
- The Nice Guy phenomenon and how it affects men
- Conscious Relationship and learning to be in compassion and understanding
- Perseverance – The importance of staying in the game and moving towards your partner
- Triggers – How to deal with triggering your partner’s wounds
- Shutting down when you’re challenged – something that many men face with their partners
- For men: moving towards your partner when fear wants you to pull away
- Anxious and Avoidant types in relationships
- Rising Woman Sisterhood: Transpersonal group-work, family systems work, and the fellowship of women.
- The paradox of vulnerability
- Shadow work and accepting both sides of your existence
- How to unlock your gifts
- How men can support women’s work.
- How to hold space for gender politics by doing your own work
- Collaboration VS Opposition in gender politics
- The masculine/feminine gender norms debate and how it can be a distraction from looking inward
- The #MeToo movement and how we can use MeToo to further our own inner work
- Sheleana’s latest obsession: Satir Family Therapy
- The best Men’s group in Vancouver – The Samurai Brotherhood
