Guideposts Along the Way In Your Partnership During CPTSD Recovery
In the long-term process of healing, it can be disorienting not knowing which benchmarks to strive for or the milestones you’re aiming to achieve. And in partnerships, it’s important to remember the ultimate goal; to completely recover from CPTSD and to have a comprehensive understanding of the relationship you have with your partner. So today, we’re taking a look at five guideposts to follow or milestones to strive for as you work through your CPTSD recovery while in a partnership. We discuss what it means to have full permission to express, how to contextualize conversations within your relationship, why you should never speak behind your partner’s back, and how to identify the negative roles that you assume in your relationship. We also discover how to find the root cause of moments of judgment and why you have to take radical responsibility for your own wounds. Thanks for listening.
Key Points From This Episode:
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Today is about which guideposts to follow in your partnerships along your healing journey.
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Understanding the ultimate goal of CPTSD recovery in partnerships.
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What it means to have full permission to express.
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Why all conversations need to be held within the context of your relationship and together with your partner.
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Identifying then addressing the negative roles you’re playing in the relationship.
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Noticing when judgment comes, and isolating the root cause.
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The importance of taking radical responsibility for your own wounds.
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Your homework for today.
Quotes:
“It’s one thing to listen to something, and it’s another thing to integrate the knowledge; embody it through your actions; and see how it lands and shapes what you do day to day.” — Tanner Wallace [02:21]
“It takes so much courage to change, and change happens over time when we align with a particular identity that shapes our habits.” — Tanner Wallace [02:36]
“If there is an urge to turn to somebody else to talk about your partner; complain about your partner; talk about the partnership, this is an immediate sign that you need to turn toward your partner and start sharing some of this with them.” — Tanner Wallace [13:38]
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