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Relationships: How Do I Make Meaningful Connections?
Relationships: How Do I Make Meaningful Connections?

To be able to find our way back to ourselves and each other, we must understand how our emotions shape our thoughts and decisions. If we don’t do this, we become “disembodied” from our own experiences and disconnected from others. Sometimes, a barrier in understanding this is that many people struggle to be held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down.

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Bridgette Gottwaldpain, meaning, connections, friendships, relationships, power, client, body, mind, emotions, instincts, reactions, behavior, feeling, thinking, meaningful
Good Grief, Part 1: Understanding the Loss of Loved Ones
Good Grief, Part 1: Understanding the Loss of Loved Ones

Unfortunately, we are all subject to the whims of a randomly cruel universe. Whether it be a more “natural” death after ninety-five long years or a sudden and unexpected loss, they all hurt deeply in different ways. We become attached to the ones we love, and attachment is pain.

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Bridgette Gottwaldgrief, loss, overcoming loss, death, stages, meaningful, devastation, experience, stages of grief, messy, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, emotional symptoms, physical symptoms, discomfort, pain, immune system, aches