In today’s episode of Alison Answers: Mission Awake, Alison welcomes Jane Axman. Jane is a therapist at Lager Counseling Services, and she is fantastic at her job. Her clients love her compassion, humor, and ability to keep it real. Jane and Alison are passionate about helping women to break the cycle of continuously putting up with a bad relationship, and not realizing that they deserve so much more than what they are accepting. 

In this episode, Jane and Alison take a deep dive into a common problem that they see in their practice, and that is women being in a relationship with a partner that is not treating them the way that they deserve. We have all seen patterns as we have grown up, and we are in an automated state repeating these patterns, but it’s time to wake up and realize that these cycles end with us, and we are destined for so much more than we are settling for. Tune in!

Key highlights:

• The stigma about not being in a relationship that could lead to settling
• Sometimes the healthier choice is to not be in a relationship
• Why people stay when they aren’t in ideal relationships
• Patterns we have seen growing up
• Signs of a bad relationship 
• What it means to be a strong man
• Signs of an insecure man
• We have the power to change ourselves and the dynamic of our relationship

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