Relationships In Midlife

Explore insights, tips, and strategies for navigating relationships in midlife. Whether it’s rediscovering intimacy, managing changing dynamics, boundaries, speaking up, overcoming relationship challenges, or choosing to leave your partner; these posts will offer empowering advice. Becoming more aware of toxic and unhealthy behaviours, such as narcissistic traits, gas-lighting, trauma bonding and co-dependency will allow you to make better choices.

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Are You Being Heard In Your Relationship?

Do you feel like your partner truly hears you when it comes to the big, important things in your relationship? Or does it feel like you’re talking to a brick wall; nothing is getting through? For me, there’s a massive difference between someone listening and someone truly hearing you. Listening can be so passive, almost

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Why Self-Care Is a Fundamental Part of Deciding Whether to Leave your relationship

 I want to share about the importance of self-care when it comes to engaging in this decision making process about your relationship, especially when you’re a people pleaser with a sensitive and empathic disposition. For people pleasers, we’re often in a fight or flight mode, we can be hyper vigilant and our nervous system are

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Are You Fully Committed To Your Relationship?

Whether you’re a people pleaser or not, there’s a big difference between fully committing to your relationship, or simply choosing to stay with your partner. Committing means you’re willing to do the hard word needed to have a happy, healthy and fulfilled relationship. This can mean being vulnerable, having difficult conversations, admitting when you’re wrong, forgiving,

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5 reasons you won’t ask for your intimate needs to be met

Speaking up and asking for what you want is hard at the best of times, but when you add in the topic of intimacy and pleasure, it can leave people terrified, even more so when you’re a people pleaser. Fears are often rooted in things that are nothing to do with physical intimacy, but in

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I’m worried my partner doesn’t think i’m enough when it comes to sex and intimacy

Do you fear that you’re not enough for your partner when it comes to sex and intimacy? Without doubt there is a huge connection between our mind, our energetic vibration, and the levels of connection, pleasure and intimacy we’re currently experiencing. So mastering our mindset is crucial in enhancing our intimate connections and having healthy

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