Category: Relationships
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Wishing Things Were Different?

Have you ever been in a relationship (or situation) where you wished things were different? You wished that your time spent together was different. You wished the relationship was different. You wished the person was different in almost every way. But other than that, they would be perfect. You spend a lot of time thinking…
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Hypnotherapy & Recovery

A review of scientific literature compared recovery rates for various modalities of therapy: Psychoanalysis recovery rate was 38% after 600 sessions. Behaviour therapy recovery rate was 72% after an average of 22 sessions. Hypnotherapy recovery rate was 93% after of 6 sessions. A note about the negative correlation between number of sessions and percentage recovery…
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Conflict and What it Means to Your Relationship

Let’s take a look at persistent problems and how they actually affect your relationship. Let’s say, you have a conflict. There’s a certain conflict that you seem to have over and over when you’re having this conflict, Become mindful of your experience inside of this conflict and see if you can bring some awareness to…
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Finding Problem-Solutions Sets in Hypnosis

Let’s take a look at conflict from a neuroscience perspective and see what’s really going on in your brain when you experience conflict. When you first started having a conflict with your partner, you were probably able to speak about the conflict with some level of logic and rationality, emotional intelligence, and some level of…
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Your Brain in Relationship Conflict 😨

What happens to your brain when you’re triggered by your partner, what it means and what you can do about it… Being triggered emotionally What’s going on from a neuroscience point of view when you experience conflict? According to Gottman couple therapy, when you experience criticism, defensiveness, contempt which include feelings of superiority; and stonewalling…
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Why You’re Not Able Solve Persistent Problems

Have you ever wondered why you can solve some problems but other problems persist? Why some linger and grow into even bigger, more complex problems? Tou might have heard that your conscious mind can hold seven bits of information at a single time (+/- 2). The conscious mind can work with five to nine things…
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Emotionally Triggered by Your Partner and Not in a Good Way

Here is it means when you’re so emotionally triggered by your partner that you shut down and stop responding altogether. This is what happens with persistent conflict with your partner, especially if you’ve entered the area of criticism and defensiveness as a response. When you”re responding with contempt and stonewalling, the end of your relationship…
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Why You Feel Stuck in Conflict

If you have a persistent problem in your relationship, consider that there are problems that your conscious mind can solve. Those are the problems that come and go because you can resolve those conflicts with your partner. You may even be able to resolve these problems on your own because your conscious mind identifies what…
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The Secret to Solving Persistent Relationship Conflicts

Signs that your relationship may be in trouble according research in neuroscience and Gottman Method Couples Therapy and his research on divorce and what you can do with unresolved conflicts in your relationship, even if your partner isn’t interested in couples therapy. Unresolvable conflicts and the way they make you feel inside of your relationship……
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Dealing with Conflict & Emotional Reactivity

One of the goals of conflict inside your relationship, according the Gottman Method Couples Therapy is to have a greater understanding of your partner. Conflict can be an opportunity to create something called a Love Map where use conflict to map out your understanding your partner’s position. Conflict can then help you build out this map of understanding how…