From being the first to say “I love you” to sharing your emotional truth, being vulnerable in any relationship takes a lot of courage. While even just the thought of this may sound truly frightening, it is only through expressing your deepest feelings and needs aka being vulnerable that true intimacy can be achieved. So how does someone that struggles with opening up and sharing their inner thoughts learn to be vulnerable? One learns vulnerability by treating being as vulnerable as a practice. By being intenti[...]
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Self Esteem
2021 is just around the corner so for many of us that means saying to 2020 "good riddance!” Although our lives should change in no discernable way when the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, there is some comfort knowing that our future looks brighter. 2021 brings a vaccine, better weather, and some much-needed relief from the inconvenience and pain that this global pandemic unleashed upon us in 2020.
My goal as a Relationship Coach is to develop singles into empowered and resilient individuals and put them on a path to find that forever relationship. I have been very blessed and fortunate for many of my clients as more and more of them are donning engagement rings or walking down that aisle with the love of their life. The path to achieving these momentous occasions is different for each of my clients, but I did want to talk about a certain faction of the people who come to me that I feel often walk the longest[...]
I consider myself a very honest and authentic person, both in my personal and my professional life. There is one thing about me that I rarely share even to the people closest to me. That is the amount of trauma I experienced growing up. This wasn’t just the typical childhood stuff that many people have experienced, my trauma came in the form of physical, mental, and emotional abuse at the hands of one of the people I looked up to the most. And unfortunately, not until I was willing to look head-on at my trauma,[...]