Episode 22: Befriending our Heart & the Challenges of Relationship Dynamics
EPISODE SUMMARY
My guest today is a dear friend, a sister, poet, mystic and writer Ruth L. Schwartz. She is the author of eight books and founding director of the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, a worldwide organization for lesbians and queer women dedicated to preventing heartbreak, dating wisely and loving well. The Academy provides education and support on conscious lesbian dating, relationships and sexuality, and helps self-identified women learn to be the right partner as well as to find her, so they can have happy, healthy love and fulfilling sex.
In this episode, we talk about two different paradigms of healing relational trauma and relational wounds. We discuss our primal need for connection and being in relationships with others, self and life. Through this sincere conversation, Ruth helps us understand the concept of conscious solitude, the Internal Family System model, and what it means to befriend the power of our heart, our energy field and our relationship needs.
Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Ruth L. Schwartz
02:58 - 2 paradigms of healing relational trauma
08:22 - Overcoming the binary view of relationship gains and losses
12:44 - The role of relationships and solitude in healing
16:25 - Relationship dynamics with others, self, and life
21:55 - Discussing the Internal Family System model
24:00 - The theory of Parts in IFS
31:57 - Healing through the relationship with self
38:53 - Conscious solitude framework
43:16 - Coherence and the energetics of the heart
54:22 - Befriending our nervous system
57:24 - About Conscious Girlfriend Academy
Resources:
- Learn how to prevent heartbreak, date wisely and love well at Conscious Girlfriend Academy
- Check out our book: Conscious Lesbian Dating & Love: A Guide to Finding the Right Partner & Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
- Connect with Ruth L. Schwartz on Instagram
- Find Ruth on Facebook
- Robert Falconer - IFS Consultant
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