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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife on Modeling Healthy Relationships, Trust, ADHD, Narcissism, and EFT vs. Differentiation

The Virtual Couch

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The Importance of Self Confrontation

The psyche is pushing us to be whole. To accommodate more truth, but we then also have our reactive mind that's afraid of it. And so when our spouse is the messenger, which they often are, because they see us better than we see ourselves, you know, we try to take them down rather than deal with our darker selves. That's marriage. The more willing they are to look at themselves and how they're impacting their partner and do something about it, not to make the partner happy, but to be a better self in relationship to their partner.

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