Ep. 342 - Top Tips for Self-love, Manifesting Love, & a Deeper Connection with Your Partner
Feb 14, 2025
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Janelle Nelson, an EMDR & MFT therapist who specializes in relationships and trauma, joins the conversation to explore self-love's impact on manifesting healthy connections. The discussion dives into the importance of authenticity in love, questioning fairytale narratives and understanding intimacy tolerance. Janelle shares insights on recognizing and healing attraction patterns, while encouraging listeners to cultivate self-worth as a foundation for deeper relationships. It’s all about taking charge of your love life and embracing the journey to authentic connections.
Recognizing and nurturing self-worth is essential for manifesting love and attracting healthy relationships that reflect one's true value.
Connecting with one's authentic self enables individuals to build meaningful relationships by understanding their core essence beyond external identifiers.
Deep dives
The Foundation of Self-Worth
Self-worth is a crucial element in manifesting love, healthy relationships, and self-love. It is essential to recognize that our sense of worth influences what we believe is possible for ourselves. If one does not feel worthy, they may attract relationships or experiences that reflect this low self-esteem. By understanding and nurturing one’s authentic essence, individuals can align their beliefs and actions with what they truly desire in love and relationships.
The Importance of Authenticity
Connecting with one’s authentic self is key to fostering meaningful relationships with others. This entails stripping away external identifiers such as career roles or social status and understanding one's core essence. By identifying and reconnecting with this authentic self, individuals can better see which relationships serve them and which do not. Engaging in practices like deep imaginings or authenticity challenges can facilitate this self-discovery process.
Debunking Common Love Myths
Many individuals hold misconceptions about love, such as equating intense attraction with genuine connection. A strong spark can sometimes signal unhealthy dynamics, like love bombing or trauma bonding. In contrast, healthy relationships often begin without the fireworks but can develop deeper connections over time. Recognizing that relationships do not have to conform to the excitement projected by media can create space for more genuine, fulfilling partnerships.
The Role of Intimacy Tolerance
Intimacy tolerance is the degree to which an individual can handle closeness in relationships. Often, people who crave intimacy are the ones who struggle with it the most, as their past experiences shape their perceptions and responses. Tackling deeper emotional wounds, such as those related to mother figures or past traumas, can expand one’s capacity for intimacy. By reparenting and nurturing the inner child, individuals can enhance their ability to engage in healthy, intimate relationships.
Tis the season of manifesting deeper love and more aligned relationships. And as Lacy points out, mid-winter brings new light, new hope, and new growth. Whether you’re happily single, searching for new love, or manifesting a closer relationship (or a million other versions of love!) this is the perfect time to let a little more light into your life. We love this day because while, yes, commercially there is a lot of programming, we consider it just the perfect time to look inward and reflect on all your relationships. This episode with Janelle, Lacy, and Jessica holds so many pearls of wisdom that will help you on whatever journey you find yourself on when it comes to manifesting love. When is a “spark” healthy versus a nervous system trigger? Are we speaking to ourselves internally with the love we are seeking? Are you falling for the Disney love myth? You don’t have to wait for someone to take you to the restaurant you’re dying to go to for love to find you. You are the architect of your love life, and it starts with the foundation of authenticity. Your love journey starts with you here and now. Just press play.
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In This Episode We Talk About:
Current energetics surrounding love, intimacy, and relationships
How self-worth impacts your ability to manifest love
The problem with fairy-tale love and cultural narratives
Intimacy tolerance: why healthy relationships can feel unfamiliar
How to identify and clear blocks to love in your subconscious
The role of childhood dynamics in shaping relationship patterns
Why self-love is the foundation of every healthy relationship
Reframing love languages to better connect with yourself
Recognizing when it’s time to stay and do the work or leave a relationship
Tips for creating deeper intimacy in friendships and partnerships
How societal trends on relationships reveal collective wounds
The importance of aligning with your authentic essence in relationships
Using expanders to visualize and attract aligned partnerships
THEMES / TIME STAMPS:
How self-worth directly affects the relationships you attract (00:09:25)
The Fairy-Tale Myth and intimacy blocks (00:15:55)
Tangible tools (including our new Stripped DI) that help shed limiting beliefs, deepen intimacy, and manifest aligned relationships (00:28:20)