Therapists, coaches, and other practitioners have a unique opportunity to help clients understand and work with the experience of resistance. But to do that, practitioners must first understand how to work with resistance themselves. In this article, we’ll start by talking about what resistance is and where it comes from. Then, we’ll look at six key strategies practitioners can use to help clients work with and move through resistance to healing.

In this article, we’re shining a light on the relationship between nitpicking, perfectionism, and fear. We’ll also talk about how you can start digging underneath fear and perfectionism to uncover a deeper capacity for love and acceptance — for both your partner and yourself.

Most people who want to become therapists think they need to pursue years of conventional education to qualify. While being educated and knowledgeable about human psychology is important, it can't actually make you an effective therapist. In this article, we're diving into the real key to becoming the kind of coach or therapist you want to be. It's not easy, and it won't happen in days or weeks — but the work will be worth it.

Adopting a holistic approach to your therapy or coaching practice can help you guide your clients toward more significant healing. Moving beyond the mind-centric approach of conventional cognitive therapy, we explore the value of somatics.

Last month on the Healing Embodied blog, we dove into all the ways FOMO can affect relationships (even healthy and loving ones). But what are we supposed to actually do when FOMO strikes?

What makes a truly effective therapist or coach? Is it their modality? How long they’ve been in practice? Their résumé? Sure—those things can definitely speak to a therapist’s professionalism. They might even play a major role in how a therapist attracts clients. But there’s one characteristic that rises above the rest when it comes to cultivating effective therapist-client relationships. And it might surprise you!

We’ve all heard about FOMO—the “fear of missing out.” FOMO can show up in big and small ways, leaving us second-guessing everything from our restaurant choices to our social lives. But when FOMO shows up in a romantic relationship, it can create immense stress, sadness, confusion, and anxiety…

Occasional conflict is normal in healthy relationships. If you are an imperfect human, fostering a long-term relationship with another imperfect human, you will bump into disagreements and points of tension along the way. But, how do you resolve conflict without fighting?

One of the most painful and confusing things about relationship anxiety and relationship OCD is not being able to sort fact from fiction. In this article, we’re diving deep into these questions so you can understand once and for all why intrusive thoughts from relationship anxiety and ROCD feel so terrifyingly real and how you can reframe your thinking to move beyond the looping doubts.

Relationship coach and self-integration expert Chelsea Joy Horton talks deception, betrayal, and the steps you can take to rebuild self-trust and move forward with your life.

When you operate from the unconscious programing that you need to rescue your clients or you need to hold their pain for them, you will rush your clients through their uncomfortable emotional experiences.

In order to see your partner for who they are instead of who fear makes them out to be, you must ⁠learn to feel safe in your nervous system when it comes to love and relationships.

When we see ourselves and our partners through the lens of love, we feel spacious, open, curious, and playful. When we see through the lens of fear - we feel tense, urgent, panicked, and hopeless.