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Are you comfortable feeling your emotions? 

For many, our natural reaction to negative emotions is to push them away and avoid them, but in order to heal those emotions, we have to feel them. In this episode of From Survivor to Thriver, we sat down with David Szczecinski to talk about feeling our emotions to heal them, complex trauma, attachment styles, being in the present moment, vulnerability, and so much more.

David Szczecinski informs listeners about the art and science of interpersonal dynamics, while offering useful insights into power and control. He helps to empower our inner world as we learn to navigate the terrain of personal and professional relationships. 

Having worked for 20 years as a trainer and clinician in both government and private practice, David has the skills to equip each person with more confidence in their relationship journey. He has seen thousands of people in their darkest hours while also having the privilege of walking alongside many people on their journey of empowerment, relationship development, self-awareness, communication, boundary setting, and, all the while, building their personal resilience. 

He is the Author of the Self-Awareness Method (SAM™) and ‘Safe/Unsafe: Understanding Modern Relationships - Field Guide’.  

In today’s episode we cover: 

• Where power and control come from
• The ancestral experience we carry 
• The types of resources we strive to gain for survival
• The difference between attention-seeking and connection-seeking
• The truth about narcissism and complex trauma 
• What it takes to feel safe 
• The behaviors we use to protect our vulnerability 
• How our attachments are created
• How anxiety is a threat response
• Absorbing yourself into the feeling of being present 
• The importance of noticing your neutral state 
• What confidence actually is 
• How we can move forward from the trauma of the past

We hope you enjoyed our conversation with David. If you want to learn more from him, make sure to visit his website and follow him on Facebook. 

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“Power and control is something that comes from within. It’s not an external thing.” -David 

“You have to feel it to heal it.” -David 

“In the mental health world, it’s often finding our power or taking it back. Not because  someone took it, but because we gave it away.” -Marc 

“We often forget that we are people. And we are living with something, but that something doesn’t define who we are.” -Erik