Category: Relationships
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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…
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4 Signs Your Relationship is in Trouble

You want to go to couples therapy but your partner isn’t interested in going. There’s four signs that predict the likelihood of divorce, called The Four Horsemen that signal that the end of the relationship is near, according to relationship researcher, John Gottman. There are four ways of communicating with your partner that signal that…
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Trying to Fill a Void in Your Relationship

Does relating with your partner feel like you’re dealing with a void that can never be filled? I was working with a client who felt like the mother of their child was like a void, that nothing he did was good enough, and she could never be satisfied. We did a session of hypnosis and…
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Hypnosis When Your Partner Doesn’t Want to Go to Couples Therapy

Hypnosis can be used as an alternative to couples therapy especially when one of the partners doesn’t want to go to couples therapy which is often the case. Hypnosis can help get to the root cause of what is really going on with conflict between couples – and you can do this for the relationship…
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Can Hypnosis Help you Get Your Ex Back?

Can you get your ex back with hypnosis? Wanting to get your ex back is a mindset problem. I’m not saying it is good or bad because either way, your subconscious will know all the ways to resolve it for you. And you can access those resources through the hypnosis. When you want your ex…