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20. Feb 2023
What gets in the way of Intimacy and Close Relationships?
To feel connected to ourselves and others is our most profound desire and can also be our deepest fear.
To feel connected to ourselves and others is our most profound desire and can also be our deepest fear.
If in our early life we had to disconnect from parts of ourselves because our close environment (our parents, primary caretakers, and family members) failed to love and support us, we had to develop life-saving mechanisms to help us to manage these difficult, sometimes life-threatening, circumstances.
These life-saving mechanisms helped us to avoid the pain, hurt, mistrust, feelings of abandonment and maltreatment.
The price we paid was to disconnect from our feelings, bodily sensations, essential needs, authentic expression and trust in life.
Later on in our lives, this can translate into a fear of closeness and intimacy, and feeling incapable of having close, loving relationships and healthy sexuality.
It can leave us believing that deep down we are not worthy of being loved and appreciated for who we are. This can be a very challenging part of ourselves to feel and acknowledge.
But if we can compassionately embrace and feel the pain, we can transform some of our unresolved anger and deepest fears.
To BE OURSELVES and to live our full potential can be one of the most challenging and painful journeys and, at the same time, an essential one.
There is nothing more powerful than; to be ourselves , to be aligned to our life force, vitality and creativity, to have unlimited access to joy, trust and aliveness, to be in touch with profound wisdom inside and to deeply trust that we are held by this compassionate universe, so we are never really alone.
Imagine how it feels to be in a close relationships while embodying these qualities…?
