Relationships Bring Up Our Deepest Wounds
Trauma Bonding is where two people conspire (consciously or not) to reenact the trauma they both had, have, or compliment.
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Relationships are Not Gender Specific
Yet because of how deeply ingrained the gender associations of those two terms are in our society, it can be hard to separate.
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
LOVE. Do they have a limited capacity for meeting you in intimacy?
We all have a different volume of love that we speak + different capacity for depth in intimacy. Some of us are highly expressive + open,...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
LOVE. Polarity through a Trauma-Informed Lens. (Part 4)
Oftentimes when people talk about polarity, they refer to the energetic poles of ‘masculine’ + ‘feminine’. Not gender specific, but...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
LOVE. Balancing Sexual Polarity with Emotional Connection for Sustainability
Part 3 of 3 LOVE. Emotional Connection. We talked about the power of polarity in sexual attraction. And this would not sustain a strong...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
SEX. How Can We Create Sexual Chemistry without a Trauma Bond?
Part 2 of 3 How to Polarize: Remember yesterday’s post where I talked about different types of polarity? Here we talk about how you can...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Aug 5, 2020
- 3 min
LOVE. Fear of Intimacy + Our Defense Mechanisms to Love
Are you preventing love from coming in? Discover the patterns you may be falling into.
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Jun 3, 2020
- 2 min
LOVE. How Our Perceived 'Certainty' Around Racism Is Contributing to the Problem
“I know.” Certainty is the death of growth. For if we are certain, then there’s nowhere else to go. “I know” is a sneaky little bugger,...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
LOVE. Open Loops in Conversation
COMMUNICATION. Open loops—when we are left with questions still about a particular event, person, perspective. The output of energy that...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Dec 13, 2019
- 2 min
LOVE. The Nice Guy Phenomenon
The phenomenon of the ‘nice guy’ in dating. Very often the reality is that there are a lot of things going on in his mind that are...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
LOVE. November: #TheMonthOfExpandingPleasure
How good can we stand it? How much pleasure can we hold? The potential? Infinite. Yet our conditioning says only so much. Hitting the...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 29, 2019
- 5 min
LOVE. I Fear I Will Never Find Love
“I fear I will never find love.” This is probably the number one fear/question I hear from men and women alike. And while I’m not a...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 29, 2019
- 5 min
LOVE. Relationship Design
What do we imagine when we say the words “relationship” or “commitment” or “marriage”? Two individuals committing their life, sex,...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 29, 2019
- 3 min
LOVE. Holding Space
What does it mean to “hold space,” and why has it become such a buzz word? Holding space is creating an environment with your own...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 29, 2019
- 3 min
LOVE. The ‘Right’ Way to Keep a Guy/Girl Interested
I hear talk among friends and colleagues about their latest endeavors in dating and sex, all of whom are trying to figure out the “right”...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 29, 2019
- 4 min
LOVE. Why do I Keep Picking the Same Type of Person?
“He’s just like all the others–distant, only texting me when he feels like it, but then he says he loves me and I just feel so good.”...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 29, 2019
- 4 min
LOVE. Dating More Than One?
Navigating any type of relationship comes with its own unique (and not so unique) challenges. Navigating open or poly relationships are...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 28, 2019
- 5 min
LOVE. How to Get Them to Show Up More Powerfully In the Relationship
“My man isn’t showing up for me powerfully. How can I get him to step up?” I hear this statement made so often from women who are not...
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Dr Cat Meyer
- Oct 28, 2019
- 6 min
LOVE. The Emotionally Unavailable
This article was originally published on Elephant Journal on December 1, 2016 and can be viewed here There is an appeal to potential...
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