Soulwork Bodywork

Healing of Relationships and Emergence of a Self
by Linda Preston

While I recommend you read this article in its entirety… I also thought it’d be useful to reduce the article to seven points, each leading to a section from the article.

  1. Any difficulties we have in relationships often stem back to a pattern… embedded in our childhood experiences

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  2. It’s hard for us to develop healthy boundaries, when we don’t give ourselves permission to be separate.

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  3. To break the pattern of cause and effect, we need to see it. More than that, with a new detachment, we need to see ourselves.

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  4. As long as we are stuck in the old pattern, we will attract partners who reinforce it.

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  5. Through dialogue and healing touch, we focus on the root of the pattern… illusions are shattered… and a new capacity for healthy choices emerges.

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  6. This process of being self-focused is healthy… and not to be dismissed as self-indulgent.

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  7. True intimacy only arises when we have a healthy relationship with ourselves.

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