Resentment towards our partner is the accumulation of lingering feelings we have from previous unresolved conflicts and unfulfilled needs. If resentment is being ignored and suppressed, it tends to grow. It creates a toxic atmosphere. We can let the resentments fester and allow them to poison our relationships, or we can learn how to work through them. Here are two processes to work through resentment.
Category: Forgiveness & Letting Go
6 Ways of Creating a Stronger Relationship with Your Adult Children
Are you struggling with your relationship with your mother or father? Or are you a parent of one or more adult children, wishing for a better or different relationship? Here are 6 ways of creating a stronger relationship between parents and adult children.
Break-Up: “I Still Miss My Ex!”
Have you experienced a breakup of a love relationship and you are still trying to come to terms with it? Any major life change requires us to find our footing again and to refocus on making new joyful memories. Let’s look at what is going on when you still miss your ex and how you can best navigate this post-breakup terrain.
Conscious Uncoupling
What if we would not just strive to consciously create fulfilling and well functioning relationships, but also create break-ups “where neither party was blamed or shamed yet where both people were left valued and appreciated for all that they’d given one another” (Katherine Woodward Thomas)?
Clearing Your Relationship Baggage – PART 1
Why do we often live one relationship after the next with the same patterns and issues? The reason for that is that we don’t learn how to grieve and complete relationships that end and therefore we carry the unresolved emotions forward into the future.
How to Stop Telling Lies & How to Stop Inviting Lies
Lies between relationship partners have the possibility to nurture but they also have potential to destroy a relationship. How does the person who is being lied to help to create the dynamic?
A Shield Around Your Heart
Trapped emotions from painful past experiences can literally create an energetic shield or barrier around our heart. 85-90% of all people have a heart shield. The price we pay for this energetic shield is loneliness, disconnect, lack of love, depression. Releasing someone’s heart shield is often followed by connecting deeper with other people and being able to experience more love.
Self-Compassion – Luxury or Necessity?
I ask, “How are you?” She replies, “Not that great. I have been feeling really down for the last two weeks. It all feels futile. I have failed in so many ways.”
The “I’m not good enough” story is almost universal. It is our default program but there is something we can do to alleviate this Inner Critic voice.
Haunted By the Past
“Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!” (Max Lucado)
When you finally forgive someone you release the energetic connection to that person or past event.
Recovering From Our Losses
Grief accumulates and our bodies become the storage tanks for all our losses and painful emotions because we were never given the tools to appropriately process our loss experiences.
My Mother’s Pearls
Exactly three years ago today, my mom passed on. She is never far away and continues to live in our memories, in our stories and traditions. The next two generations, her children and grandchildren, carry her legacy as consciously as we can. Some of her pieces of clothing or jewellery remind us of her all…
The Perfect Mother
Nobody and nothing can prevent us from truly loving ourselves. It is our job to love ourselves; nobody can do it for us! No amount of love from the outside can penetrate through if we do not take the cape of self-judgment, self-loathing or even self-hatred off.