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Reflections from Mark Colclough, MA, psychotherapist and EFT couples therapist specialising in expats and international couples, to help you understand yourself and your relationships.
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Relationship anxiety: why it happens and how to calm it
What drives the worry, and what settles it
Codependent relationship: how to stop losing yourself
How to see the pattern and start to change it
Fearful avoidant attachment: why you pull away and return
Why closeness pulls you in and pushes you out.
Silent treatment in a relationship: why and how to respond
Silence used as punishment, and what ends it.
Fear of abandonment: why I always expect to be left
Why you brace for the ending, and how the bracing stops.
How to process emotions when the feeling is too big
What to do with a feeling that is too big to hold.
Crying for no reason: what the tears are reporting
Why you cry for no reason, and what helps you settle.
Grief and loss: nothing is wrong with how you grieve
What grief really does, and what actually helps you.
Push-pull relationship: one chases, one pulls away
The chase and the retreat feed each other. Here is how it stops.