These books will help you understand more about primary attachment styles, nonviolent communication,
the negative cycle of conflict, and our physiological need for connection and emotional safety.
Couples can get trapped in
a negative cycle of conflict and hostility or increasing alienation and distance.»
The De-Escalation Stage of EFT Treatment takes couples through the heightened
negative cycle of conflict and disconnection to a place of new possibilities based on an emerging capacity for mutual empathy.
To read about how a couple who is in
a negative cycle of conflict learns these skills, check out our book Emotional Connection: The Story and Science of Preventing Conflict and Creating Lifetime Love.
Not exact matches
When you experience
conflict in your marriage, try these steps as a way
of interrupting the
negative cycle: (a) Clarify, in your own minds and with each other, what you aren't getting from the marriage (e.g. affirmation, affection, sexual satisfaction), (b) Concentrate, not on the areas in which your needs are mutually exclusive or contradictive, but on the «areas
of overlap» (20)
of your two need systems.
The
negative cycle and communication skills We teach couples to see their
conflict as a result
of an underlying
negative cycle.
In a single session, she helps them conceptualize their
conflicts in attachment terms, gain an understanding
of their
negative cycle and begin to reveal some
of the vulnerable feelings that underlie their explosive anger.
I will help you to learn about the
negative dance you get into as a couple and how to stop the
cycle of distance or
conflict.
Most all intimate relationships will experience times
of increased
conflict, disconnection and
negative cycles.
Through the use
of Emotionally Focused Therapy couples will learn to identify and understand their
negative cycle during
conflict, learn and implement
conflict resolution skills, learn to identify their own and partner's emotions, build trust and regain intimacy.
Every parent and child experience
negative cycles of interaction that continue to spiral from one
conflict to the next.
Using description is the best way to defuse this destructive
cycle of judgment,
negative arousal, misunderstanding, and
conflict (Marsha Linehan, 1993).
In moments
of conflict, miscommunication, frustration, anger, disappointment, sadness,
negative emotional
cycles, or patterns
of getting stuck, coming back to your foundation
of love and appreciation is super important.
What I found over time was that the first foundation for healing pain in the individual, was to repair hurts in the relationship, break through repeating
cycles of conflict and
negative communication and rebuild the bond that originally brought the couple together.
In this small, private weekend workshop (7 couples max), you will experience how to identify and change the
negative cycles that get in the way
of intimacy and romance, make sense
of your own and your partner's emotions, discover better ways
of handling stress and
conflict, and restore trust and safety in your relationship.
High
conflict couples, caught in a
negative cycle of argument and blame, who just can't seem to communicate.
As an EFT therapist, I can help you reconnect with your loved one, break the repetitive
negative cycles that block intimacy, make sense
of your and your loved one's emotions, better handle stress and
conflict, forgive each other, and restore trust and safety in your relationship.
Strengthening the foundation
of love and affection helps to curtail repetitive
negative cycles of anger and despair thereby promoting a secure base from which to reduce vulnerability, diminish
conflict and repair attachment injuries.
I help couples manage
conflicts and stop those
negative cycles — a major cause
of distress.
Unresolved emotional
conflicts from the past can create a
negative cycle where parents, often without meaning to, inflict psychic wounds similar to the ones they experienced at the hands
of their parents.