Thriving Your Love

In this special edition of Thriving Your Love, we interview Shalini Dayal, LMFT, and Natasha Kharbanda, LCSW. They discuss the importance of tailoring couples therapy to the needs of each culture, in their case, the South Asian community. They raise awareness of the challenges of interracial marriage and the influence of in-laws. They also discuss what made them decide to become therapists and their specialties as couples' therapists.

We talked about the negative cycle that happens between partners. One partner seeks connection through blame and control, while the other avoids it for fear of being hurt. In this episode, we explain how one partner can bring the other close by being responsive.

We talked about how reassurance helps people feel more secure. When people are afraid of losing their attachment figure, reassurance of one's love goes a long way toward helping them feel safe.

Do you believe you belong with your partner or sometimes feel like an outsider? Many partners don't feel desired by their partners and see themselves as inadequate or not good enough. This may affect their self-esteem because their perception of themselves is tightly connected to how they think their partners see them.

Jealousy is caused by fear of losing a significant attachment figure. It may be based on reality or in our imagination. When it's based on reality, it may help us guarantee that we don't lose a loved one. However, if it's in our imagination, we might cause relationship problems. Sometimes, the fear might push the other person away from us instead of bringing them closer.

In this video, we discuss how attachment theory helped us understand love and the need for someone we can count on.

In this edition we talk about about how we show love through our body language. Our tone of voice, our touching, our eyes, and our gestures sometimes speak louder than the words we say. Turning to our loved one when they are talking to us and paying attention to them tells them that they are important to us.

In this last episode of Understanding a Narcissist Partner, we focus on the need to feel important and the lack of awareness of the impact of a partner. Narcissists need to feel important and valuable. One way they do it is by driving the attention to themselves. Being the center makes them feel valued and admired by people around them.

In this video, we explain how narcissism and vulnerability cannot coexist. Narcissism involves a fear of being oneself and hiding behind a mask of self-confidence. The more we fear being seen, the less able we are to be vulnerable. We hide behind a mask of superiority for fear that people will not accept us for who we are.

In this podcast, we aim to demystify narcissism disorder. Like other mental health illnesses such as borderline disorder and bipolar disorder, narcissism disorder has been looked upon with judgment and prejudice. We try to bring more understanding and acceptance to a problem that affects most of us to some degree.