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Internal Family Systems In Action with Founder Richard Schwartz PHD #333

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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Trauma Bonding and Relationships

Relationships are one of the key cornerstones of our life and there's a lot of talk about trauma bonding in ways in which relationships can be toxic because parts of you are trying to heal through parts of the other person. So we asked each member of the couple to do what we call a u-turn in their focus so when couples come in and they're trauma bonded most of them are focused on changing the other person so that they better meet their their exiles. Each of us wants our partner to take care of our exiles and don't know that we can do that ourselves like you just found out you can take care of that boy, she says.

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