The Wellness Diary
Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.
4- Ways To Stop Projecting Onto Your Romantic Partners
Projection is the process by which we displace our own feelings, beliefs, values or unmet needs on to others. We do this most often and most intensely with romantic partners. Our mind tricks us into seeing our romantic interest as someone different than who they are. We see them as a “savior”- someone who can alleviate us from our own emotional distress.
Vlog: Attachment Styles
Vlog: Sandra Kushnir, LMFT discusses the impact of attachment styles on your relationships, emotional regulations and self-image.
How Your Attachment Style Can Impact Your Relationships
Exploring the type of attachment style that you have can be an excellent way to learn more about yourself and how to have better, more evolved relationships with romantic partners, family members and friends. There are three primary attachment styles that people have: anxious, avoidant and secure. Read on to learn more about how you can use attachment types to better understand yourself and your relationships.
Helping Others: Aftercare Recovery
Anyone who has someone in their life struggling with addiction recovery may wonder what role they can play in their loved one’s recovery. One way family and friends can support a recovering addict in an impactful way is by helping them to get their lives back on track after their recovery.
Attachment Patterns: Understanding What Happens In Our Relationships
Our attachment style is formed in earliest moments of our existence, but it holds power over the rest of our lives, especially when it comes to how we function in our closest intimate relationships.