What happens is something will trigger
a primary vulnerable feeling like sadness, hurt, fear, or feeling not good enough or unworthy.
Not exact matches
Blasting Congressman Jerrold Nadler for choosing to support a controversial nuclear accord with Iran, a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders promised tonight that the veteran Democrat would
feel the full wrath of his constituents — and one even suggested Mr. Nadler would be
vulnerable to a
primary challenger.
That's taller than a Miata, so it probably doesn't
feel quite as
vulnerable, but I don't think it's enough of a step up if your
primary goal is safety.
Sometimes we don't
feel safe being
vulnerable, so we mask our
primary emotions with secondary emotions.
The process of making amends and what must be in place for the process to effectively unfold [24:35] How does shame affect our ability to
feel and express remorse, and why doing inner work around our shame is essential preparatory work for rebuilding relationships [27:40] Healing relationships by working with our 4 R's: resentments, respects, regrets, requests [30:33] The willingness to be
vulnerable and why emotional responsiveness plays an essential role [31:16] How masculine and feminine typologies, expectations, and gender norms affect our expressions of vulnerability, and how to unpack what lies beneath [34:28] Differences in communication styles between the masculine and feminine poles of a relationship, and how communication styles affect not only our
primary relationships, but our familiar relationships and friendships, too.
Partners who have grown accustomed to
feeling criticized or shut out by each other are mostly in touch with their more reactive secondary emotions, and not with the more
vulnerable primary emotions and their underlying unmet needs.
Primary emotions make us
feel vulnerable and they're usually harder to express to another person — they include fear, hurt, shame, sadness, disappointment.
I'll often flag this for them in stage two by asking, for example, a re-engaged withdrawer to remind the pursuing partner what it meant and how it
felt to hear the more
vulnerable primary emotions.
It ain't perfect (spoiler alert: you won't avoid
feeling vulnerable), but it's the best available path we have to
feel connected to our
primary other with as little heartache as possible.
Imagery is a
primary means by which the right hemisphere organizes and processes information about self, others and affect and, therefore, is often an important means of gaining direct access to the «
vulnerable child part» of the patient in relation to significant others and the associated «gut level»
feelings that make up schemas.
Middle - aged adults will likely find themselves providing financial, practical, or emotional assistance to their aging parents; others may become the
primary caregivers for parents and find themselves increasingly
vulnerable to
feelings of burden and depression (Amirkhanyan & Wolf, 2006; Lin et al., 2013).