I know how frustrating it can be to sit and wait by the phone for a call that will make you feel alive and worthy.
Or to wilt from neglect waiting for your partner to initiate connection so you can feel desired again.
I used to wait to be chosen, too.
I used to want to be #1 in my husband’s life, too.
The thing is, when you insist on being #1 in your partner’s life, you are refusing to take responsibility for being #1 in your own life.
You’ve read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, read all of my articles. Maybe you even tried Couples Therapy.
Things may even have felt promising for a week or two, but then it all returns to same old.
Because the information from outside will not bring about change in your life, unless you start creating that change daily.
And it all starts with carving out space for yourself in your life.
And it sounds easy, but is surprizingly difficult in practice.
Because if you’ve had no models to teach you what self-love looks like, or you are afraid to be called selfish, or you feel guilty to take time for yourself, you will not be able to do this work on your own.
I’ve seen significant improvement in success rate with keeping a promise to Self practice when clients are in a group setting. The accountability when instilling new habits makes a big difference.
Moreover, facing your Self is what many of us have been avoiding for most of our lives. To venture there it helps to have someone holding your hand, holding a flashlight, rooting for you.
Because whatever you don’t face in you will show up through the mirror of another.
In that mirror you will see reflected the lack of self-love, you will meet the nervous system of your childhood dysfunction, you will feel your wounds and trauma.
And you’ll hate it and you’ll blame them.
Expecting your needs to be met by others is the result of arrested emotional development in childhood, when you couldn’t meet your own needs and relied on caregivers to do so.
When you are adult, outsourcing the responsibility for your needs to others can leave you perpetually undernourished.
Becoming #1 in your own life is the best gift you can give to yourself and your loved ones. By attending to your needs you give to people you care about from an overflow. Plus, when you value yourself and your own life, you set the tone for everyone else how to treat you.
Waking up with a warm feeling of calm and peace, knowing that you are safe and you are loved in your life?
Smiling as you open your curtains and say “I love my life” because you built it from your own values and preferences, a life where you do very little of what you don’t like?
Filling your days with doing what you want, when you want and with whom you want, because you know how to listen to your inner boundaries, when to say no and when to say yes?
Finally feeling at peace in your relationship because you understood that the boredom you used to run from is actually your nervous system in regulation and safety, and now you know this is what you want?
No longer fearing conflict, because you know how to repair post-conflict? Having learned to respect your voice enough to speak your truth, because difficult conversations give you important information about the health of your relationship?
Taking ownership of your own emotions and instead of blaming or projecting them on people in whose presence you feel them, you know they are messengers from your body to you about you?
No longer fearing abandonment or the pain of betrayal, because you know you will never again neglect, betray or abandon yourself?
– Introduction to self-awareness (laying foundation for noticing inner patterns via somatic experiencing practice)
– Moving from automatic patterns of self-abandonment to conscious choice via self-attunement & inner resourcing
– Nervous system awareness: understanding stress cycles & regulation tools
– Child development: understanding needs & survival strategy
– Reparenting: a path to wholeness & healing
– Validation versus judgment
– Navigating shame & emotional processing
– Authenticity versus attachment
– Redefining forgiveness
– Self-sourcing safety & love
– Learning to receive: deserving, acceptance & gratitude
I created this program, because I find the work of inclusion, un-shaming, and healing the inner child vital on our journey toward building healthy relationships with Self and others.
Through my own process of awakening and working with clients, I discovered that our single most important relationship is our relationship with ourselves.
The way we relate to ourselves is how we relate to other people and everything else in our lives.
It is our perception of our own disempowerment that holds us stuck in relationships and situations that no longer serve us, where we think that changing others is the only way we can improve our lives.
I found that it’s when we take the power into our own hands that we can affect change in our lives.
It is when we start changing from within, that we create an incredibly powerful impulse and an invitation for everyone else to change.
My goal is to empower you with concrete tools that render you self-sufficient, able to source love from within, and gain access to the inner wisdom as a reliable guide, while connected with the present moment, where you can make empowering decisions and connections.
I created this program, because I find the work of inclusion, un-shaming, and healing the inner child vital on our journey toward building healthy relationships with Self and others.
Through my own process of awakening and working with clients, I discovered that our single most important relationship is our relationship with ourselves.
The way we relate to ourselves is how we relate to other people and everything else in our lives.
It is our perception of our own disempowerment that holds us stuck in relationships and situations that no longer serve us, where we think that changing others is the only way we can improve our lives.
I found that it’s when we take the power into our own hands that we can affect change in our lives.
It is when we start changing from within, that we create an incredibly powerful impulse and an invitation for everyone else to change.
My goal is to empower you with concrete tools that render you self-sufficient, able to source love from within, and gain access to the inner wisdom as a reliable guide, while connected with the present moment, where you can make empowering decisions and connections.
The program starts on March 20.
As soon as you enroll, you will be included in the list of participants and will be receiving all the pertinent information regarding the program.
We kick off with the first Live call on Thursday, March 20 at 3:00pm NY / 12:00pm LA
The Whatsapp group will be organized that same day and you will start receiving content on Friday, March 21.
The five sessions will be held every Thursday at 3:00pm NY time / 12:00 LA time.
The dates for Live calls are March 20, March 27, April 3, April 10, April 17.
All calls will be recorded and recordings and transcripts available the next day.
You will get homework assignments and receive daily journaling prompts and/or pre-recorded somatic exercises from March 21 to April 17.
You will have daily support from me and your peers through a private group on Whatsapp.
1-1 calls with me are not included in this program, but you will be able to schedule a private session for additional cost at any time during the program.
Refunds are not available for this program. However, if there are compelling reasons that will prevent you from participation in the program, we will discuss if these funds may be applicable to this program at a future date.
You will have access to a library of resources and all the recordings of Live sessions, which you will be able to keep beyond the duration of the program.