Sentences with phrase «vulnerable emotions underlying»

Help partners access the more vulnerable emotions underlying repetitive destructive cycles

Not exact matches

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.

Help couples access the vulnerable emotions that underlie their repetitive destructive cycles

Once partners become more aware of their underlying needs, fears, and longings, they are helped to communicate with each other on the basis of these more tender and vulnerable emotions.

In psychodynamic therapy approaches, people who resort to violence in order to hide deeper emotions are encouraged to become conscious of the more vulnerable feelings that may underlie their aggression.

Talk about how you are fearful that the marriage is on the wrong track and be vulnerable about the underlying emotions, not just the surface ones.

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.