Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy addresses these cycles, bringing awareness and understanding to underlying core emotions of self and other while establishing a sense of safety in the relationship so each of you can
share these vulnerable emotions with one another in a way that moves you closer together to provide closeness, comfort and soothing rather than farther apart.
Not exact matches
Sometimes we are
vulnerable and
share deep - seated
emotions and thoughts, but not always.
While the cast are universally fantastic, with Emily Blunt amazing as the
vulnerable yet badass mother and Krasinski carrying multiple
emotions with his pained yet stoic father figure, it will be Simmonds that gets the lion's
share of the credit.
Can they identify a
vulnerable emotion related to hurt or fear underneath their typical pursuit or withdrawal — even if they choose not to
share it at that moment?
As my partner is less comfortable than I with
sharing his deepest
emotions, it helped so much to have a room full of other couples, all being open and
vulnerable with one another.
They discover and enable the
sharing of
vulnerable emotions as well as attachment fears and longings all in the service of creating enough safety to re-shape the bond and create a more secure attachment between partners.
3) Each partner owns and
shares their feelings while caught in the cycle, including their surface
emotions (e.g., anger, frustration, anxiety, hopelessness, feeling bad) and deeper, more
vulnerable emotions (e.g, sadness, loneliness, fear, shame, despair).
In Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, we help both individual and couple to uncover and
share the more
vulnerable emotions each experiences.