Tips for your relationship
- geoffmiles
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: May 14, 2022
When a woman’s past comes up, she is vulnerable and her self-esteem hits rock bottom. Sometimes, the greater the love you experience, the deeper and more painful the feelings from your past are when they surface. It is at this point that most people either run from love or increase their addictions because they are too afraid to reveal what they are feeling. Love is the greatest environment for either a man or a woman’s past to be healed.
Summary from John Gray's "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"
Dutch Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk points out that there is almost a direct correlation between childhood trauma and addiction. 'People that feel good about themselves don't do things that endanger their bodies… Traumatized people feel agitated, restless, tight in the chest. You hate the way you feel.16 Mar 2020