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Ladies, Femmes, and Sensitive Gems...Is Your Partner Tuning You Out No Matter How Much You Talk About Your Needs and Feelings?
Why your relationship talks are falling flat or getting tuned out.
Veronica Puryear
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Why Your Relationship Anxiety Isn't Getting Better
Don't see the video above? Try this link: https://youtu.be/uzTAcZ6pqDQ What I’ve noticed in folks who are having pervasive relationship...
Veronica Puryear
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Are you leaning forward in Love? Always the first to text and fill the silence?
Always the first to text in relationships? Wonder why others don't take more initiative?
Veronica Puryear
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When Traditional therapy Isn't Working (Watch me get fired up about this one!)
Somatic Intimacy Coaching is like this: 1. We’ll chat about what juicy, connected intimacy would feel like for you and what kinds of...
Veronica Puryear
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How I help you Unblock for Epic Love
Rumi — ‘Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.’...
Veronica Puryear
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A sneaky trick of guilt and shame in relationship (and subconscious ways we blame others for our discomfort)
Do you find yourself getting defensive when you do things for yourself or take up space in your relationship? Do you imagine your partner...
Veronica Puryear
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Three Underrated Luxuries of Secure (and SEXY!) Love
Surprisingly signs that you feel happy and secure in your love and relationships.
Veronica Puryear
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Mismatched Desire: When one partner wants sex and the other does not (and the joyful path back to connection...)
What do you do when one person says, "I want connection first," and the other insists, "I have to be physical to feel close!"
Veronica Puryear
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How is Somatic Intimacy Emotion Coaching Different from Traditional Talk Therapy? (Anxious/Avoidant Edition...)
I copied this description (scroll down to see the answer) below from my about page explaining the difference between Somatic Therapy and...
Veronica Puryear
4 min read
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Feeling your resistance is the answer, hun.
What if the frustration, relationship anxiety, disappointment, ick, trigger, shut down, blah.... Is not a setback in your healing or...
Veronica Puryear
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Bratty Kid Behavior and How to Deal (whether it’s your actual kids or an inner child…)
Take it from a somatic intimacy coach who meets the inner children of all of my sweet, perfectionist, hardworking, magical clients every...
Veronica Puryear
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Healing Trauma is Simpler Than You Think....
A truly skilled practitioner (something I believe is rare, if I'm being honest) is someone who understands you beyond a simply technical...
Veronica Puryear
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Bedtime stories...First she healed her anxiety, then she drew him closer with her energy...
This is the story of a formerly *very* anxious wife and a guarded husband who have been experiencing some intense conflict in the last...
Veronica Puryear
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"I should just let this go..." "If they could just do this ONE thing..."
The ways in which we are critical of ourselves often creates so much resistance and distortion in our minds. If you could just BE...
Veronica Puryear
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Your anxiety, patterns, and block are not who YOU are.
The PART of you that: Shuts down when you feel discouraged Spirals when your partner feels far away Is endlessly critical of yourself and...
Veronica Puryear
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The Common Understanding of Settling is a Hot Mess
I’m regularly annoyed and sometimes even disturbed to see relationship experts and therapists posting content that recommends settling....
Veronica Puryear
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Independent, Reserved, and Aloof People Need Deeper Connection, Not Less
More connection not less. A discovery from my own avoidant moments. Sometimes people confuse my resistance to closeness as a desire to be...
Veronica Puryear
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Why Men Shut Down.
Feeling exhausted by the not-so-subtle nitpicking of your partner? Or maybe you're just so worn out from having to guess what people want...
Veronica Puryear
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What is Intimacy Anyway?
Intimacy is what happens between the lines.... It is a wordless but felt sense of closeness It is a vibe It is energy It is subtext It is...
Veronica Puryear
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Everything About You Makes Perfect Sense, My Darling
Everything about you makes perfect sense because of.... The way your cells were formed in your mother's womb... The nervous system you...
Veronica Puryear
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