Many relationships struggle because we can't tell if our lack of safety comes from our partner's behaviour or from our own unresolved wounds. This makes it hard to feel secure and connected, leading to tension and misunderstanding.

What we need to do is look at whether our partner is genuinely showing up in a committed, present, and reliable way. At the same time, we need to reflect on our own patterns and see if past wounds are influencing how we perceive the relationship.

If we don’t draw these distinctions, our relationships can become filled with blame and criticism. We may constantly feel unsafe and unsatisfied, even if our partner is doing their best. This creates distance and can keep us from experiencing deeper love and trust.

In this episode, Lorin invites you to ask yourself whether your partner’s showing up in a way that deserves appreciation. If they are, try expressing gratitude for their efforts today. If not, think about how you can lovingly communicate your needs to help strengthen the connection.

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Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Attracting a conscious partner can be a frustrating process. It can feel like we’re doing everything right but still aren’t seeing the results we want. This can lead to restlessness, a sense of pressure, and crippling self-doubt.

But there are practical steps we can take to create space for the right person to enter our lives. We need to shift our energy from frustration to grounded excitement and let go of trying to control the timeline.

Frustration and resistance can weigh us down and keep us stuck. We might start viewing our journey with negativity or start sabotaging the process altogether. This takes the joy out of the present moment and creates unnecessary suffering.

This episode will help you create a calm space, drop into your heart, and let your deepest intuition guide you. This small action can begin to shift your energy and align you with the love you’re seeking.

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Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Unresolved fears, past wounds, and unrealistic expectations plague many relationships. To create healthier relationships, we need to look inward.

Working on a relationship means working on ourselves – understanding our fears, taking responsibility for our behaviour, and being open to growth and vulnerability.

Jillian Turecki is a renowned relationship coach, teacher and writer who helps people build and maintain exceptional relationships. She brings extensive experience from her background in somatic experiencing and thousands of hours of relationship coaching.

It Begins With You – Jillian’s book

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Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Many of us find ourselves stuck in toxic relationships or dynamics with people who manipulate, control, and drain our energy. They can be overtly dominant or subtly manipulative, making it hard to see their true intentions. Being in these situations leaves us confused, hurt, and disconnected from our own power.

In this episode, you’ll learn to see the narcissistic shadow for what it really is. Once we understand the dynamics at play, we can take steps to protect ourselves and break free. This means setting clear boundaries, cutting off their control, and refusing to engage in their manipulation.

If we continue to let narcissists dictate our life’s path, we remain stuck in their game of control. They continue to manipulate, deceive, and cause harm. Our energy gets drained, and we lose touch with our own truth and power.

So this is an invitation to release those energetic ties between you and those who seek to manipulate and gaslight. Every small step we take in reclaiming our energy makes a difference.

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Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Many of us struggle with limiting beliefs about what sexuality should be. We need to approach our sexuality as a practice, just like meditation or yoga.

In this episode, tantra and intimacy coach Layla Martin offers tools and techniques to help us get in touch with our energy and connect with ourselves more deeply.

It all starts with a pleasure practice – dedicating time to connecting with our sexuality, using breathwork, meditation, and physical movements to release stuck emotions.

Sharing daily intentions and support, and scheduling weekly moments to connect emotionally and energetically with our partners helps us create the space to honour all expressions of sexuality, experiencing it as a rainbow of possibilities rather than a single colour.

The pressures and misconceptions we often face can make sex a source of stress rather than joy. But by focusing on presence with our body and exploring sensations without judgment. we can embrace the full spectrum of our sexuality and find liberation in our sacred experiences.

• Follow @thelaylamartin on Instagram
• This Tantric Life podcast
• The Tantric Mastermind for Couples

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Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Many men feel disconnected from their masculine energy. This shows up as a lack of backbone, not standing up for oneself or loved ones, and people-pleasing. It can also lead to performance anxiety and trouble connecting deeply in intimate relationships.

The root of these issues often lies in a fear of confrontation, a need to control situations, and an emotional disconnect. To help tackle this, we can start by grounding ourselves in our masculine energy. This means cultivating a strong sense of self and being able to set boundaries.

If we aren’t connected to our masculine energy, we risk living passively and feeling unfulfilled. We can struggle with self-worth and face challenges in relationships as others won't know where we stand.

In this episode, Lorin offers prompts you can jot down in your journal, to help you reflect on what you want to achieve and to outline the steps to get there. These small actions can lead to meaningful change.

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Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Is love enough to sustain a lasting and fulfilling relationship? While love is a powerful force, it doesn't automatically ensure a successful partnership. The problem often lies in the barriers and limitations we place around love, which stem from our unconscious patterns and fears.

We need to focus on healing and removing these barriers, allowing love to flow freely and deeply within our relationships. We must devote ourselves to creating a safe container for love to grow, which means working on ourselves and understanding our partners.

Relationships can become difficult and unfulfilling when we let our traumas and shadows dominate. This leads to a lack of passion, safety, and trust, turning relationships into cycles of pain.

But by focusing on our personal growth and the barriers we face, we can bring more love and consciousness into our relationships.

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Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

So many men struggle with feeling safe and secure in themselves and in their relationships. This lack of safety can stem from deep wounds, like losing a father figure early in life. In this episode, Lorin explores how to become a safe and secure man by undergoing an awakening journey.

It all starts with self-reflection – this can be through guided sessions, men's groups, or your own private practise. The goal is to strengthen your inner security, to address past wounds and learn to feel safe within yourself, without relying on validation from outside.

If you’ve found yourself stuck in a cycle of seeking reassurance from others, you might have looked for other things to fill the void, like doomscrolling on social media, or looking for attention outside of a committed relationship.

But by reflecting on your past experiences and identifying areas where you feel insecure, you take the first step towards healing and developing a stronger sense of self.

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Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Many men carry the weight of generational trauma. It shows up as avoidance of deeper pain, disconnecting from emotions, and not living from our true masculine core. Man’s history of warfare and the conditioning we've received about being stoic and emotionless have a large part to play.

To heal, men need to own their issues, face their wounds head-on, acknowledge the pain, and make healing our main focus.

If we don’t, we risk remaining stuck in emotional reactivity and disconnection. We’ll struggle in relationships, unable to feel love or be present with our partners, creating more pain and insecurity for us and those we care about.

In this episode, Lorin offers an explanation of the generational trauma carried by men, how men can work through it, and how women can support this work.

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Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine

Generational trauma is passed down through history, from grandmothers to mothers to daughters. It stems from centuries of suppression, where the feminine was not safe to express its full wisdom and intuition. This has left a lasting impact on the feeling of safety women experience today.

In this episode, Lorin explores ways to begin to heal this generational trauma, by understanding and acknowledging it. For women, their work is to avoid suppressing the emotions that arise, and to disidentify with them and from the trauma they stem from.

And for men, their work is to stop invalidating the feelings of the women in their lives – to hold space for them, and not dismiss them.

The awakened feminine and masculine can work together to break the cycle where women feel unsafe to be themselves – to heal the trauma and pain, to avoid passing it down, and to live more fulfilled lives.

For more on this topic, you can read The Ancestor Syndrome, by Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger.

Mentioned in this episode:

Discerning Narcissists in Relationships

Healing Your Relationship with the Masculine