"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...
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Veronica Puryear
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Where I'm hiding from deeper intimacy...
I’m guilty. Guilty of holding back and keeping my most tender self a secret. In my downturned glances and with a clench of my jaw, I stop...
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Veronica Puryear
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"I feel more at peace than I ever have"
These are notes from a client who was once a VERY anxious person. "I feel so much more powerful and in my body. I feel grateful for...
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Veronica Puryear
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'Effortless' love is on the other side of a skill level and open heart that you don't yet have.
This is for the guy having a tantrum in my virtual office saying… “She should just know! I shouldn’t have to tell her!” …it’s also for...
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Veronica Puryear
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No, you’re not a People Pleaser
I can’t take another social media post about people pleasing. Why? First, why does everything need an official-ish sounding and degrading...
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Veronica Puryear
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Fluidity as Philosophy...The Ethos of Indelicate
Good luck trying to get me to make you feel wrong about something because I mostly believe that right and wrong are simply not a thing....
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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....
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Veronica Puryear
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In Defense of Non-Linear Relationships
If you are a person who grows, you will change. If you are alive on this planet, on this astral plane....you will have ruptures like...
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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...
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Veronica Puryear
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I'm Difficult, a Lone Wolf, Avoidant, Protective, Perfectionist...
I'm talking about me this time. A coach called me prickly today. The big trigger. That I'm perceived as hard to understand and difficult...
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Veronica Puryear
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What Is A 1:1 Session Like? What Can I Expect?
What happens in a session? ***Please note that all sessions are fully clothed and that we will not have intercourse.*** In sessions, I...
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Veronica Puryear
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"I just Need to Find The Right Partner, Then I'll be Happy and Everything Will Work Out"
I hear this AND OTHER SUCH EXCUSES constantly. "When the timing is right,"..."When the right match finally comes along,"...."When I find...
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Veronica Puryear
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Five Things I Didn't Realize Were Codependent
If you grew up managing a parent’s mood or behaviors (or were raised by someone with that trauma)… You might have learned that: 👎it’s...
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Veronica Puryear
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Why do I feel bad about wanting attention?!
#1 It is human nature to desire attention and for many people there is no such thing as too much. BUT! You feel shame about wanting...
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Veronica Puryear
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Women Have Darkness and Imperfections and Men Have So Much Love to Give
Let women be imperfect and let men step into the light. When we paint women as perfect or as perpetual victims of the foibles of men we...
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Veronica Puryear
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Giving critiques can often feel more familiar and easy than giving love
Sometimes judgement feels like the only safe way to say, “I care.” Being sincere is hard and vulnerable. Intimacy, true vulnerable...
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Veronica Puryear
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One Year of Epic Growth and the Foundation It is Built On
One year. Celebrating milestones is not a strong suit of mine. I don’t like planning for them and I don’t know how to ask to be...
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Veronica Puryear
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Remember that everyone gets nervous
Before you unravel… Remember that everyone gets nervous. I see so many clients—and my own lovers—get so lost in their own heads. You...
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Veronica Puryear
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How much of your dreams can you actually handle?
How much discomfort can you handle? (Disappointing others, saying ‘No’) How much joy? (Letting people love you, feeling satisfied and...
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Veronica Puryear
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Self Sacrifice is not the thing that makes you a great partner...
Your worth is not in the things that you “do” for people, but in who you are to them by simply being your most authentic and loving self....
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