INPOD-23: Defining and Overcoming Fear of Intimacy 2
People who experience this fear don't usually wish to avoid intimacy, and may even long for closeness, but frequently push others away or even sabotage relationships nonetheless.
People who experience this fear don't usually wish to avoid intimacy, and may even long for closeness, but frequently push others away or even sabotage relationships nonetheless.
If you’ve ever felt like no matter how hard you work, you’re still struggling to get ahead, you’re not alone. Childhood trauma, including sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, doesn’t just affect your emotions; it can impact your wallet,...
It’s a profound moment of clarity: recognizing that the decisions they made during those moments of survival were not failures but rather attempts to cope with the unimaginable.
Years of harmful programming from both the sexual abuse and societal attitudes distort our understanding of relationships. Many male survivors often carry subconscious beliefs that
The struggle becomes even harder when family members or others defend or excuse the abuser’s actions to preserve a certain family image...