If you’ve been burned even once in any of your relationships, be it romantic, friendship, or family, our human inclination is to make sure we never get hurt like that again. We build walls. It absolutely makes sense, but this reaction also has consequences. It prevents us from being able to enjoy intimacy in relationships in the future. How do I know? Because I’m walking it out in my life, right alongside you. Grief has taken me to some dark places of shame and humiliation, but if I didn’t have a network of support to love on me and remind me of truth, I would have still been stuck. In this episode, I want to share with you how you can begin to let your walls down so you can experience the good in your relationships again too! 

 

As you begin this journey,  just one foot in front of the other, I strongly recommend working with a life coach, a therapist, or both. I share with you how each of these professionals can help in different ways. Working with a coach like me, you will be able to explore what experiences make up those walls, how they got there, and how you can work to move them aside so you can move forward. This process also requires that you begin to trust yourself again to be able to endure those hard moments of hurt or disappointment. And lastly, (and this is a hard one), you have to practice not taking things so personally. The reality is that not everything people say or do is a value statement about you! Friends, this process isn't easy, but I promise you it’s worth it. I’m here to walk every step with you! 

 

In this episode we’ll explore: 

• Why we naturally build up emotional walls
• How walls can prevent us from experiencing pain and joy all at once
• Why vulnerability is necessary in order to heal from past hurt

 

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