Most of the people whom I have confronted about the pain I felt they’ve caused me, were either in denial of the event or its impact (my parents) or perceived it as something completely different (my partner, friends). I learned that in most cases what caused me the pain was my own interpretation of events […]
Read More >>It’s easier to project our pain on others, blame them for our feelings, our discomfort, our predicament, wishing they’d change.
Read More >>With all the processing I’ve done in the last years, all the effort to leave the smaller, the familiar version of me behind, she is still there. She is still my default setting: my inner child. My experience of me as a child, my somatic memory of it is painfully shy and awkward. Did shyness […]
Read More >>Thinking that other people can and should make us happy or worthy is actually what keeps us stuck. This illusion that our well-being depends on other people’s behavior is what leads to so much of our unhappiness. This is true for all relationships, including parents and children.
Read More >>As a 54-year old woman, I’m conditioned to spend an enormous amount of energy and money to fight who I am. My age. My aging and less elastic skin. My more rounded body. I’m supposed to compete with my daughters trying to look more like their sister than their mother. I am supposed to worry […]
Read More >>Becoming a woman for me has been the process of unlearning to be the good girl. I am forever someone I have to live with. I became a woman. I finally owned all of who I am.
Read More >>In the Old Paradigm we’ve been conditioned to seek safety on the outside: a knight in shining armor, the money in the bank, a gun hidden in a night table, a wall surrounding a property. All of these are necessary for people who feel not only frightened and unable to survive on their own but also expecting the worst from neighbors, family members, life itself.
Read More >>How do we know that our desire is ours? How do we know that our desire is ours and not conditioned by society? This was a question raised in Esther Perel’s Sessions on Forbidden Conversations. Whether sexual desire or desire for anything else in life, we do not even realize to what extent our wanting […]
Read More >>This is a 30-minute conversation I offer to prospective coaching clients. It is an opportunity for us to meet and see if working together feels like a good fit.
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