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August 23, 2023 19 mins
Do you ever experience feelings of rejection, abandonment, emotional abuse, physical threat, or even holding content? It may indicate a problem with emotional safety.

If you want to feel more emotionally safe in a current relationship or a future relationship.

In this episode, we will discuss emotional safety, what truly occurs when we lack it, how to restore sex and intimacy when they are lacking, the relationship between our attachment style and emotional safety, how that's connected to it,

and the 10 practical steps to start practicing and doing right now to build up emotional safety.

What we discuss:
  • How can low emotional security be a problem?
  • How emotional safety affects sex and intimacy
  • What to look for if a partner lacks emotional safety.
  • How attachment styles affect our emotional safety
  • How do we build emotional safety?
  • How to build trust

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