01/23/2025
💕A client of ours said recently that she felt like she could finally “reactivate” her true self, and get to know her authentic self in this season of her life, now that she feels safe in her relationships. She had been in an emotionally abusive, toxic marriage for almost a decade, during which she spent most of her time containing and casting aside her needs, in effort to tip-toe or regulate her ex-partner’s extreme and often manipulative reactions.
🔎When we don’t feel safe in our relationships (emotionally/physically), we suppress our true selves and we feel anxious and/or depressed much of the time. Relationships are the whole foundation for how we see and build ourselves. When we feel like our relationships are dangerous for us (keep us on edge, make us doubt ourselves, make us feel “crazy,” make our body feel nervous/stressed/pain, make us feel unworthy), all bets are off for our own healing, growth, and actually seeing who we truly are and what we’re capable of. 👉🏼If they won’t join you in doing their own work, filtering out people who make you feel this way, who keep your nervous system surging, is a huge piece of the finding fulfillment puzzle. 🤗You deserve safety, compassion, empathy, to be held, to be celebrated, to be trusted, to be loved for you as you are.
💬Reach us at www.powerfulwomenshealth.com
🧠🍑Mental Health Counseling + Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy