Welcome to Dr Sarah: Relationship Success Lab, where high achievers, executives, and entrepreneurs explore relationship fitness, healing from relationship trauma, and creating secure, trusting, and loving partnerships. Designed for those navigating high-stakes careers and relationships, we dive into trauma-informed coaching, relationship wellbeing, and practical strategies to recover from trauma bonding and build meaningful connections. Save your marriage, start building secure relationships and optimizing your relationship wellbeing.

 

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In this podcast episode, we're diving into the topic of vulnerability leading to trauma-bonded relationships, and it's a crucial issue we all need to be aware of. Many people fail to connect the dots between their past experiences, upbringing, and how they find themselves in toxic, trauma-bonded relationships. Often, individuals enter these relationships without realizing it until it's too late.

The vulnerability to trauma bonding can be traced back to one's upbringing and early attachments. Our subconscious beliefs and thoughts are deeply ingrained by the age of six or seven, shaping how we interact with others and the kind of relationships we seek as adults. If you grew up with conditional love and the belief that you must meet others' expectations to be worthy of affection, you may become a people-pleaser in adulthood.

Trauma-bonded relationships often start with the "love bombing" phase, where you feel cherished and seen. This intense attention can be addictive, especially if you've longed for it due to your earlier conditioning. As the relationship progresses, you may experience criticism, manipulation, and gaslighting, which further erodes your self-worth. You begin to believe that you're only good enough when someone else validates you.

This cycle makes you perpetually hooked on seeking validation and approval from others. You may reject healthy relationships and gravitate toward those that feel familiar, even if they are toxic. Breaking free from trauma bonds requires rewiring your subconscious mind, ch

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Welcome to Trauma Bonding to Secure Relationships with Dr Sarah — the podcast that helps ambitious individuals and couples heal trauma bonding and toxic relationship cycles to build secure attachments and loving healthy relationships.

Hosted by Dr Sarah, psychologist, relationship strategist, and founder of Heal Trauma Bonding and Relationship Success Lab, this show guides you through practical tools and deep insights on:

✅ Healing from trauma bonding, anxious attachment style, and codependency
✅ Building emotional resilience and secure attachment styles a
✅ Improving communication, empathy, and emotional intimacy
✅ Reclaiming your identity, boundaries, and self-worth
✅ Creating lasting relationship happiness and passion

Whether you're recovering from betrayal, navigating codependency, or simply ready to break free from the past, this podcast gives you the clarity, strength, and strategy to move forward

We hope you got massive value from this episode for your own healing and relationship progress.